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- Title
- Charlatan: America's Most Dangerous Huckster, the Man Who Pursued Him, and the Age of Flimflam
- Author
- Brock, Pope
- Publisher
- Crown
- Publication year
- 2008
- Condition
- Good
- Binding
- hardcover
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 0307339882
- ISBN 13
- 9780307339881
- Item weight
- 21 ounces
- Dimensions
- 6x1x9
Recounts the career of America's most infamous con man, John Brinkley, who, despite having no medical training, parlayed sales of worthless patent cures into a career as a famed surgeon specializing in the restoration of male virility, and details the decades-long efforts of Morris Fishbein, editor of the Journal of the American Medical Association, to bring him down. 75,000 first printing.
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About the Author
POPE BROCK is the author of the critically acclaimed Indiana Gothic, the story of his great-grandfathers murder in 1908. Brock has written for numerous publications, including Rolling Stone, Esquire, GQ, and the London Sunday Times Magazine. He lives in upstate New York with his twin daughters, Molly and Hannah.
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