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Charlatan : America's most dangerous huckster, the man who pursued him, and the age of flimflam / Pope Brock.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Brock, Pope.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Brinkley, John Richard, 1885-1942.
- Brinkley, John Richard.
- Quacks and quackery--United States--History.
- Quacks and quackery.
- Physicians--Kansas--Biography.
- Physicians.
- History.
- Kansas.
- United States.
- Genre:
- Biographies.
- Physical Description:
- 324 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 25 cm
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Crown Publishers, [2008]
- Summary:
- 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.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 305-310) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780307339881
- 0307339882
- OCLC:
- 85862407
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