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Charlatan by Pope Brock

Charlatan

America's Most Dangerous Huckster, the Man Who Pursued Him, and the Age of Flimflam

by Pope Brock
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  • Feb 5, 2008, 336 pages
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  • Jan 2009, 336 pages
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  Quack Medicine

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