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Charlatan: America's most dangerous huckster, the man who pursued him, and the age of flimflam

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Tells the story of the little-known Dr. John Brinkley and his unquenchable thirst for fame and fortune and Morris Fishbein, a quackbuster extraordinaire who relentlessly pursued the greatest charlatan of the 1920s and 1930s.
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Biographies
Biography & Autobiography
Brinkley, John Richard
Brinkley, John Richard, -- 1885-1942
Criminals
Fishbein, Morris
Fishbein, Morris, -- 1889-1976
History
Medical
Nonfiction
Physicians
Physicians -- Kansas -- Biography
Quacks and quackery
Quacks and quackery -- United States -- History
True Crime
United States
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