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

Author(s)

• Brock, Pope

Bibliographic Information

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

Pope Brock

Three Rivers Press, c2008

• : pbk

Note

Originally published: New York : Crown Publishers, c2008

"First paperback edition"--T.p. verso

Includes bibliographical references (p. 305-310) and index

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

Details

• NCID: BB26314661
• ISBN:
  • 9780307339898
• LCCN: 2009285537
• Country Code: us
• Title Language Code: eng
• Text Language Code: eng
• Place of Publication: New York
• Pages/Volumes: 324 p., [8] p. of plates
• Size: 21 cm
• Classification:
  • LCC : R730
  • DC22 : 610.92
  • DC22 : B
• Subject Headings:
  • LCSH : Brinkley, John Richard, 1885-1942
  • LCSH : Quacks and quackery -- United States -- History
  • LCSH : Physicians -- Kansas -- Biography