The Great American Hoax

In 1959, G. Clifford Prout appeared on national television and came to the attention of millions of Americans as the founder of an organization whose objective was to clothe all animals from cats to camels for the sake of decency. Incredible? Preposterous? Of course. Yet most people accepted the Society for Indecency to Naked Animals as a genuine movement, and among them were large numbers of crusading zealots who, alarmed by the claims about America's declining morality, expressed their support for SINA's cause. The Great American Hoax chronicles how Alan Abel pulled off one of the most infamous and longest-running pranks of the century.