Charlatan: America's Most Dangerous Huckster, the Man Who Pursued Him, and the Age of Flimflam (edit title/settings)

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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... read more

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