false http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1189197969m/1851568.jpg 1851568 6 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 & 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, <i>Charlatan</i> is a marvelous portrait of a boundlessly audacious rogue on the loose in an America that was ripe for the bamboozling. 2836152 5 2 2008 Charlatan: America's Most Dangerous Huckster, the Man Who Pursued Him, and the Age of Flimflam total:323|5:66|4:130|3:97|2:27|1:3| 323 1198 631 130 5 10 false false Thu Nov 20 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Wed Nov 19 11:39:10 -0800 2008 Thu Nov 20 19:46:56 -0800 2008 more...]]> 4 1 false false Sat Apr 11 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Sun Apr 12 07:56:44 -0700 2009 Sun Apr 12 08:06:21 -0700 2009 once more...]]> 4 2 false false Fri Mar 06 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Thu Mar 05 05:40:26 -0800 2009 Fri Mar 06 07:44:08 -0800 2009
Brock's book focuses on one John R. Brinkley, who made a name for himse...more...]]> 4 1 false false Fri May 30 08:31:06 -0700 2008 Fri May 30 08:47:51 -0700 2008 more...]]> 4 1 false false Mon Oct 01 14:43:01 -0700 2007 Wed Dec 05 08:56:00 -0800 2007 Charlatan: America's Most Dangerous Huckster, The Man Who Pursued Him, And the Age of Flimflam. I wanted to read it from the moment I saw the cover, which I swear they must have cooked up just for me, because my picking up the book was a foregone c...more...]]> 3 1 false false Tue Aug 05 10:43:59 -0700 2008 Tue Aug 05 10:55:47 -0700 2008 more...]]> 4 0 false true Tue Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Sun Mar 15 06:46:21 -0700 2009 Sun Mar 15 06:52:12 -0700 2009
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Pope Brock, in perfect pitch, tells the story of John Brinkley, not just a...more...]]> 5 0 false false Sat Apr 25 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Thu Jul 09 14:32:00 -0700 2009 Thu Jul 09 14:32:00 -0700 2009 more...]]> 4 1 false false Tue Jun 02 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Wed Jun 03 06:55:51 -0700 2009 Wed Jun 10 07:05:06 -0700 2009 more...]]> 5 0 false false Wed Apr 01 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Fri May 15 11:57:42 -0700 2009 Fri May 15 12:03:53 -0700 2009 more...]]> 3 0 false false Sat Apr 18 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Thu Apr 09 15:18:36 -0700 2009 Sat Apr 18 07:18:36 -0700 2009 more...]]> 0 0 false false Thu Feb 05 09:56:08 -0800 2009 Thu Feb 05 09:56:08 -0800 2009 Reviewers across the board bought what Pope Brock is selling. The author reeled them in with the incredible Brinkley, a quack who was one of a kind yet revealed so much about the era in which he lived. Critics were mesmerized by Brock's ability to connect Brinkley's life to other episodes in America...

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