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Charlatan: Americas Most Dangerous Huckster, the Man Who Pursued Him, and the Age of Flimflam (Audiobook, MP3)
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Charlatan: Americas Most Dangerous Huckster, the Man Who Pursued Him, and the Age of Flimflam (Audiobook, MP3)Charlatan: Americas Most Dangerous Huckster, the Man Who Pursued Him, and the Age of Flimflam (Audiobook, MP3)

 Witness the rise and fall of the greatest medical con man of all time in this enormously entertaining story of how a fraudulent surgeon made a fortune by inserting goats' testes into impotent American men. John Brinkley, who grew up poor in rural North Carolina but attended Rush Medical College in Chicago, got his start touring as a medicine man hawking miracle tonics and became famous for transplanting goat testicles into impotent men. Brinkley built his own radio station in 1923, hustling his pseudoscience over the airwaves and giving an outlet to astrologers and country music. 
 
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