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Charlatan : America's Most Dangerous Huckster, the Man Who Pursued Him, and the Age of Flimflam by Pope Brock (2009, Trade Paperback)

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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.

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Publisher
Crown Publishing Group, T.H.E.
ISBN-10
0307339890
ISBN-13
9780307339898
eBay Product ID (ePID)
66680931

Product Key Features

Author
Pope Brock
Publication Name
Charlatan : America's Most Dangerous Huckster, the Man Who Pursued Him, and the Age of Flimflam
Format
Trade Paperback
Language
English
Publication Year
2009
Type
Textbook
Number of Pages
352 Pages

Dimensions

Item Length
8in
Item Height
0.8in
Item Width
5.3in
Item Weight
10.2 Oz

Additional Product Features

Lc Classification Number
R730.B76 2008b
Reviews
"Told with uproarious brioâ€¦heavenlyâ€¦A book so lively that its wild stories are virtually wall to wall." -Janet Maslin,New York Times "An extraordinary saga of the most dangerous quack of all timeâ€¦A talented storyteller, [Brock] digs deep into the personal secrets of his charactersâ€¦entrancing." -USA Today "You will devourCharlatan,Pope Brock's tale of fools and fanatics. With a vast and wild cast of characters, and filled with issues and topics that resonate through the yearsCharlatanbegs comparison with Erik Larson'sThe Devil in the White Cityand deserves to be a best seller." -Chicago Tribune "Written with glee, in a style that is pure gusto, a bubbling fountain of metaphor and arresting imageâ€¦Fishbein's campaign against Brinkley makes up one strand of this extraordinary tale and provides it with a bravura courtroom finale." -Boston Globe "Hugely amusing [but also] dark and cautionary, a reminder of the high price of gullibility and ignorance." -Jonathan Yardley,Washington Post Book World "A compelling slice of lurid Americanaâ€¦fun to read." -Entertainment Weekly "Fascinatingâ€¦Brock is gifted." -Associated Press "Pope Brock reaches into the past and captures an incredible storyâ€¦perceptive." -Chicago Sun-Times "An irresistible and wide-ranging slice of popular history." -The Seattle Times "If Hollywood hasn't already optioned [this], what's keeping it? -David Gates, Newsweek "Wonderfulâ€¦a gripping narrative" -Nature "A rollicking biographyat turns funny and horrifying, brimming with wit, insight and who-knew facts." -Wichita Eagle "Wonderful American social history and lots of fun." -Kirkus Reviews "In this lively and absorbing biography, Brock deftly captures the consummate snake-oil salesman and gifted entrepreneur John R. Brinkleyâ€¦recommended." -Library Journal "Brinkley's astonishing rise and fall story is told with wry good humor inCharlatanâ€¦compelling." -The Times (Acadiana, Louisiana) "Brock exploits the outlandishness of Brinkley's escapades to brilliant comic effect." -Washington CEO "This spellbinding saga of a once-famous medical man who left all too many corpses in his wake is nothing short of spectacular. Impeccably researched, smartly crafted, beautifully written, it's a pure joy to read. And dealing, as it does, with eternal traits of human greed and gullibility, this extraordinary book is timely as well as timelessâ€¦A mesmerizing must-read, written by a writer of exquisite talentâ€¦One is left with the kind of reaction one has after reading a masterpiece." -Heinz Kohler, Willard Long Thorp Professor of Economics, Emeritus Amherst College "Take the Duke and the King inAdventures of Huckleberry Finn. Roll them into one. Hand this creature a scalpel, a radio microphone and the sweet-talking skills to get filthy rich hawking a deadly implantation of goat sexual organs to gullible American men and women. Then set him about transforming American pop culture in the 1920s and 30s. You have John R. Brinkley, a con artist of leviathan proportions. Pope Brock's true-life account o
Copyright Date
2008
Target Audience
Trade
Topic
Hoaxes & Deceptions, Medical, Criminals & Outlaws, History
Lccn
2009-285537
Dewey Decimal
610.92 B
Dewey Edition
22
Illustrated
Yes
Genre
Biography & Autobiography, True Crime, Medical

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