Charlatan: America's Most Dangerous Huckster, the Man Who

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.

From the Trade Paperback edition.
Country USA
Manufacturer Crown
Binding Kindle Edition
ReleaseDate 2008-02-05
Format Kindle eBook

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