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Charlatan by Pope Brock. It's a thrilling non-fictional account of a medical quack who got rich putting goat testicles in men's scrotums. Due to his talent for
by framebit 9y ago
Charlatan by Pope Brock. It's a thrilling non-fictional account of a medical quack who got rich putting goat testicles in men's scrotums. Due to his talent for speaking straight to the people over a new communication medium that nobody understood the power of (radio), he very nearly became the governor of Kansas.
I heard about it through the excellent Reply All episode from late last year, and the book is even better.
- randycupertino 9y agoSounds like Trump!
- framebit 9y agoThat was the strong subtext of the Reply All episode: https://gimletmedia.com/episode/86-man-of-the-people/ https://gimletmedia.com/episode/86-man-of-the-people/ They talked about how this was a story from the early 1900s that felt like it was happened last week.