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

“One day in the fall of 1917, a Kansas farmer named Bill Stittsworth, 46 years of age, showed up at the clinic that had recently been opened in the hamlet of Milford by a medical quack named John R. Brinkley. “His visit didn’t seem like the Annunciation,” Pope Brock writes in this hugely amusing if somewhat sobering book, “any more than he looked like the archangel Gabriel.” Stittsworth reluctantly admitted that he was suffering the condition for which Viagra is now prescribed. As Brinkley tried to dream up a solution, the farmer looked wistfully out the window, “pondering the livestock,” and said: “Too bad I don’t have billy goat nuts.” Read the review at the Washington Post.

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