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

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

The inspiration for the 2016 Sundance Film Festival documentary, NUTS!. â€œAn extraordinary saga of the most dangerous quack of all time...entrancingâ€ â€“USA Today

In 1917, John R. Brinkleyâ€“Americaâ€™s most brazen con manâ€“introduced an outlandish surgical method for restoring fading male virility.

It was all nonsense, but thousands of eager customers quickly made â€œDr.â€ Brinkley one of Americaâ€™s richest menâ€“and a national celebrity. The great quack buster Morris Fishbein vowed to put the countryâ€™ s â€œmost daring and dangerousâ€ 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.
Country USA
Brand Broadway Books
Manufacturer Crown
Binding Paperback
ItemPartNumber 9780307339898
Color Black
ReleaseDate 2009-01-13
UnitCount 1
EANs 9780307339898

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