Johnny Heller
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Shocking and hilarious in equal measure, this is an extraordinary story of greed, gullibility and goat-glands. In chronicling the outrageous career of John R. Brinkley, king of the quack doctors, and his nemesis, Morris Fishbein, the buoyant, compulsively curious editor of the Journal of the American Medical Association, Pope Brock has also written a cautionary tale for our own times -- about celebrity, mass-marketing, media power, political huckstering...