Charlatan

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In 1917, John R. Brinkley arrived in the tiny town of Milford, Kansas. Here he opened a medical practice and introduced an outlandish method of restoring fading male power - using goat glands. Thousands of clients quickly turned the "doctor" into America's richest and most famous surgeon.
His fame attracted the attention of another great charlatan, Morris Fishbein, who vowed to put "the most audacious and dangerous" con man in the country out of business. But all his efforts seemed to only spur Brinkley to new heights - he went into broadcasting and politics, and his campaigning methods are still used today. How did their game of "cat and mouse" end? And was Brinkley really an inventive charlatan who crippled hundreds of patients, or a medical experimenter like Professor Preobrazhensky from Bulgakov's Heart of a Dog? In this book, Pope Brock uncovers the secrets of one of the biggest scams in American history.

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Publication language: Russian

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