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The book, Catch Me If You Can, was about the most daring con man, forgers, impostor, and escape artist in history. His name is Frank W. Abagnale. During his brief but notorious criminal career, Abagnale donned a pilot's uniform and copiloted a Pan Am jet, masqueraded as the supervising resident of a hospital, practiced law without a license, passed himself off as a college sociology professor, and cashed over $2.5 million in forged checks- all before he was twenty-one. After all of this he ends up working for the FBI's National Academy. He is now one of the world's most respected authorities on counterfeiting and secure documents.
II. The purpose for which this book was written was to explain what it was like in the 1960's and to tell a story about someone's astonishing life. Back in the 1960's airplane's were just staring to come around and anyone who was a pilot was held with high respect...