The Bizarre Careers of John R. Brinkley /

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Tells the story of the infamous ""Goat Gland Doctor"" -- controversial medical charlatan, groundbreaking radio impresario, and prescient political campaigner -- and recounts his amazing rags to riches to rags career. A popular joke of the 1920s posed the question, ""Wha...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Lee, R. Alton
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Lexington, Ky. : University Press of Kentucky, 2002.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Brinkley, John Richard.
Brinkley, John Richard, > 1885-1942.
Radio broadcasters.
Quacks and quackery.
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY > Medical.
PSYCHOLOGY > Psychotherapy > General.
History, 20th Century > United States > Biography.
Quackery > United States > History.
Famous Persons > United States > Biography.
Radio broadcasters > Mexican-American Border Region > Biography.
Quacks and quackery > Mexican-American Border Region > Biography.
Quacks and quackery > United States > Biography.
United States.
North America > Mexican-American Border Region.
Biographies.
Biography
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Humble origins
  • Tannenberg goats
  • Radio advertising
  • Beset by enemies
  • Brinkleyism
  • Hands across the border
  • The old cocklebur
  • Decline and fall
  • Postscript
  • Conclusions.

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