Category - Non Fiction / Biography & Autobiography
Format - Paperback
Condition - Good
Listed - 7 months ago
Views - 8
Ships From - Texas
Est. Publication Date - Jan 2009
Seller Description
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
Additional Information
Charlatan: America's Most Dangerous Huckster, the Man Who Pursued Him, and the Age of Flimflam
ISBN: 9780307339898
Publisher Description
Charlatan is a remarkably rich historical narrative that tells the forgotten story of Americas most ingenious con man and one mans decades-long battle to bring him to justice. 8-page b&w photo insert.
Be The First One To Review
Review the book today!