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Item Information       Summary     More Content     More by this author     Brock, Pope.     Subjects     Brinkley, John Richard, 1885-1942.     Quacks and quackery -- United States -- History.     Physicians -- Kansas -- Biography.     Browse Catalog     by author:      Brock, Pope.       by title:      Charlatan [electroni...         MARC Display

Charlatan [electronic resource] : America's most dangerous huckster, the man who pursued him, and the age of flimflam / Pope Brock. by Brock, Pope. New York : Crown Publishers, ©2008. Subjects Brinkley, John Richard, 1885-1942.   Quacks and quackery -- United States -- History.   Physicians -- Kansas -- Biography. Electronic Resource http://link.overdrive.com/?websiteID=50&titleID=155273 This title is available online; click here to access Electronic Resource http://excerpts.cdn.overdrive.com/FormatType-410/0111-1/072/BB8/EE/CharlatanAmericasMostDangerousHuckste9780307409652.epub Electronic Resource https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=072BB8EE-234D-4CFC-A095-0E934BAC4B42&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Electronic Resource http://images.contentreserve.com/ImageType-100/0111-1/{072BB8EE-234D-4CFC-A095-0E934BAC4B42}Img100.jpg ISBN:  9780307409652 (electronic bk.) 0307409651 (electronic bk.) Description:  1 online resource (324 pages, [8] pages of plates) : illustrations Requests:  0 Summary:  In 1917, after years of selling worthless patent remedies throughout the Southeast, John R. Brinkley-America's most brazen young con man-arrived in the tiny town of Milford, Kansas. He set up a medical practice and introduced an outlandish surgical method using goat glands to restore the fading virility of local farmers. It was all nonsense, of course, but thousands of paying customers quickly turned "Dr. "Brinkley into America's richest and most famous surgeon. His notoriety captured the attention of the great quackbuster Morris Fishbein, who vowed to put the country's "most daring and dangerous "charlatan out of business. Their cat-and-mouse game lasted throughout the 1920s and '30s, but despite Fishbein's efforts Brinkley prospered wildly. When he ran for governor of Kansas, he invented campaigning techniques still used in modern politics. Thumbing his nose at American regulators, he built the world's most powerful radio transmitter just across the Rio Grande to offer sundry cures, and killed or maimed patients by the score, yet his warped genius produced innovations in broadcasting that endure to this day. By introducing country music and blues to the nation, Brinkley also became a seminal force in rock 'n' roll. In short, he is the most creative criminal this country has ever produced. Culminating in a decisive courtroom confrontation that pit Brinkley against his nemesis Fishbein, Charlatan From the Hardcover edition.   Copy/Holding information No Item Information

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