Charlatan: America’s Most Dangerous Huckster, the Man Who Pursued Him, and the Age of Flimflam

Recounts the career of America's most infamous con man, John Brinkley, who, despite having no medical training, parlayed sales of worthless patent cures into a career as a famed surgeon specializing in the restoration of male virility, and details the decades-long efforts of Morris Fishbein, editor of the Journal of the American Medical Association, to bring him down. Reprint. 40,000 first printing.