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Charlatan: America's Most Dangerous Huckster, the Man Who Pursued Him, and the Age of Flimflam

Charlatan: America's Most Dangerous Huckster, the Man Who Pursued Him, and the Age of Flimflam - Paperback

by Pope Brock
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Availability:In StockContributor:Pope BrockPublish date:01/13/09Pages:352
Language:EnglishPublisher:Crown Publishing Group (NY)ISBN-13:9780307339898ISBN-10:307339890UPC:9780307339898Book Category:Biography & AutobiographyBook Subcategory:Criminals & Outlaws, HistoricalSize:8.00 x 5.10 x 0.80 inchesWeight:0.6504Product ID:SCT6G7N4PJ
The inspiration for the 2016 Sundance Film Festival documentary, NUTS . "An extraordinary saga of the most dangerous quack of all time...entrancing" -USA Today

In 1917, John R. Brinkley-America's most brazen con man-introduced an outlandish surgical method for restoring fading male virility.

It was all nonsense, but thousands of eager customers quickly made "Dr." Brinkley one of America's richest men-and a national celebrity. The great quack buster Morris Fishbein vowed to put the country' s "most daring and dangerous" charlatan out of business, yet each effort seemed only to spur Brinkley to new heights of ingenuity, and the worlds of advertising, broadcasting, and politics soon proved to be equally fertile grounds for his potent brand of flimflam.

Culminating in a decisive courtroom confrontation, Charlatan is a marvelous portrait of a boundlessly audacious rogue on the loose in an America ripe for the bamboozling.
Language:EnglishPublisher:Crown Publishing Group (NY)ISBN-13:9780307339898ISBN-10:307339890UPC:9780307339898Book Category:Biography & AutobiographyBook Subcategory:Criminals & Outlaws, HistoricalSize:8.00 x 5.10 x 0.80 inchesWeight:0.6504Product ID:SCT6G7N4PJ
POPE BROCK has written for numerous publications, including Rolling Stone, Esquire, GQ, and the London Sunday Times Magazine. Brock is the author of the critically acclaimed Indiana Gothic, the story of his great-grandfather's murder in 1908. He lives in upstate New York with his twin daughters, Molly and Hannah.
Publisher: Crown Publishing Group (NY)

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