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Title Charlatan : America's most dangerous huckster, the man who pursued him, and the age of flimflam / Pope Brock.

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New York : Crown Publishers, c2008.

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Location	Call No.	OPAC Message	Status
Axe 2nd Floor Stacks	615.856 B771Bb 2008 c.2	---	Available
Axe Kansas Collection	615.856 B771Bb 2008	---	Lib Use Only
Pittsburg 2nd Fl Kansas Collection	K 615.8 Bro	---	Available

Edition	1st ed.
Description	324 p., [8] p. of plates : ill. ; 25 cm.
Bibliography	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.
Subject	Brinkley, John Richard, 1885-1942.
	Quacks and quackery -- United States -- History.
	Physicians -- Kansas -- Biography.
	Brinkley, John Richard, 1885-1942.
	Physicians -- United States -- Biography.
	History, 20th Century -- United States -- Biography.
	Quackery -- history -- United States -- Biography.
	Transplantation of organs, tissues, etc.
ISBN	0307339882
	9780307339881
Standard No.	NLM 101467348