Charlatan: America's Most Dangerous Huckster, the Man Who Pursued Him, and the Age of Flimflam
by Pope Brock
List Price:
Our Price: $11.45
You Save: $13.50 (54%)
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
Buy Used: from $7.44 (click here)
Category: Book
See more book details and other editions
Book Summary Information
Author: Pope BrockEdition: Hardcover
Published: 2008-02-05
ISBN: 0307339882
Number of pages: 336
Publisher: Crown
Book Reviews of Charlatan: America's Most Dangerous Huckster, the Man Who Pursued Him, and the Age of Flimflam
Book Review: Fabullllllllllllllllous
Summary: 5 Stars
I picked up this book after reading its 5 star review in an Audio magazine.
Every page makes you laugh at the man's marketing acumen. Its a timely books since I am dealing with such sleazes in my life right now.
I sometimes wonder how people like these can sleep in the night knowing they are coning others in broad day light.
If you want to know the mind of a scoundrel, this book is for you.
Summary of Charlatan: America's Most Dangerous Huckster, the Man Who Pursued Him, and the Age of Flimflam
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 is a marvelous portrait of a boundlessly audacious rogue on the loose in an America that was ripe for the bamboozling.
General Books
Book Subjects
- Arts & Photography
- Audiobooks on Cassette
- Audiobooks on CD
- Biographies & Memoirs
- Business & Investing
- Children's Books
- Comics & Graphic Novels
- Computers & Internet
- Cooking, Food & Wine
- e-Books
- Engineering
- Entertainment
- Gay & Lesbian
- Health, Mind & Body
- History
- Home & Garden
- Horror
- Law
- Literature & Fiction
- Medicine
- Mystery & Thrillers
- Nonfiction
- Outdoors & Nature
- Parenting & Families
- Professional & Technical
- Reference
- Religion & Spirituality
- Romance
- Science
- Science Fiction & Fantasy
- Sports
- Teens
- Travel
Most talked about in mystery, thrillers
The Innocent Man: Murder and Injustice in a Small Townby John Grisham
Doubleday; Published: 2006-10-10; Hardcover; Book
Best price: $1.37
Price in other shops:
Did Lizzie Borden Axe for It?by David Rehak
Angel Dust Publishing / Lulu.com; Published: 2008-02-23; Paperback; Book
Best price: $14.17
Price in other shops:
In Cold Bloodby Truman Capote
Modern Library; Published: 2002-03-05; Hardcover; Book
Best price: $11.99
Price in other shops:
The Darkest Night: Two Sisters, a Brutal Murder, and the Loss of Innocence in a Small Townby Ron Franscell
St. Martin's True Crime; Published: 2008-03-04; Mass Market Paperback; Book
Best price: $3.55
Price in other shops:
The Game: Undercover in the Secret Society of Pick-Up Artistsby Neil Strauss
Canongate Books; Published: 2005-01; Hardcover; Book
Best price: $9.98
Too Late to Say Goodbye: A True Story of Murder and Betrayalby Ann Rule
Pocket; Published: 2007-11-20; Mass Market Paperback; Book
Best price: $3.24
Price in other shops:
Thunderstruckby Erik Larson
Three Rivers Press; Published: 2007-09-25; Paperback; Book
Best price: $2.50
Price in other shops:
SMOKE, MIRRORS,AND MURDER AND OTHER TRUE CASESby ANN RULE
POCKET BOOKS A DIVISION OF SIMON AND SCHUSTER; Published: 2008; Hardcover; Book
Best price: $3.99
Charlatan: America's Most Dangerous Huckster, the Man Who Pursued Him, and the Age of Flimflamby Pope Brock
Crown; Published: 2008-02-05; Hardcover; Book
Best price: $14.85
Price in other shops:
The Suspicions of Mr. Whicher: A Shocking Murder and the Undoing of a Great Victorian Detectiveby Kate Summerscale
Walker & Company; Published: 2008-04-15; Hardcover; Book
Best price: $14.45
Price in other shops:
Similar Books and other products
Retribution: The Battle for Japan, 1944-45by Max Hastings
Knopf; Published: 2008-03-18; Hardcover; Book
Best price: $10.70
Price in other shops:
The Monster of Florenceby Douglas Preston
Grand Central Publishing; Published: 2008-06-10; Hardcover; Book
Best price: $13.49
Price in other shops:
The Story of Edgar Sawtelle: A Novelby David Wroblewski
Ecco; Published: 2008-06-01; Hardcover; Book
Best price: $13.87
Price in other shops:
Pictures at a Revolution: Five Movies and the Birth of the New Hollywoodby Mark Harris
Penguin Press HC, The; Published: 2008-02-14; Hardcover; Book
Best price: $15.64
Price in other shops:
Bonk: The Curious Coupling of Science and Sexby Mary Roach
W. W. Norton; Published: 2008-04-07; Hardcover; Book
Best price: $12.99
Price in other shops:
The Good Rat: A True Storyby Jimmy Breslin
Ecco; Published: 2008-02-01; Hardcover; Book
Best price: $12.25
Price in other shops:
Lush Life: A Novelby Richard Price
Farrar, Straus and Giroux; Published: 2008-03-04; Hardcover; Book
Best price: $14.45
Price in other shops:
Beautiful Children: A Novelby Charles Bock
Random House; Published: 2008-01-22; Hardcover; Book
Best price: $9.49
Price in other shops:
The Teapot Dome Scandal: How Big Oil Bought the Harding White House and Tried to Steal the Countryby Laton Mccartney
Random House; Published: 2008-02-05; Hardcover; Book
Best price: $13.72
Price in other shops:
This Republic of Suffering: Death and the American Civil Warby Drew Gilpin Faust
Knopf; Published: 2008-01-08; Hardcover; Book
Best price: $12.50
Price in other shops: