Pope Brock

Calendar Listings by Eugenia on Wednesday 20 February 2008 at 9:18 pm

Date: Wednesday, February 20th, 2008
Time: 6:00 p.m.
Location: Harold Washington Public Library

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Charlatan: America’s Most Dangerous Huckster, the Man Who Pursued Him, and the Age of Flimflam. Best title ever. According to the owner of the Book Table (who was nice enough to buy all my galleys for a very fair price), Pope Brock’s book has been selling incredibly well. I can’t say I’m surprised, since anyone called Pope Brock deserves to sell a zillion books. The subject of Charlatan, John Brinkley, made his fortune implanting goat testicles into impotent men. Too bad Brian Dunning wasn’t around in those days…

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