Charlatan

The inspiration for the 2016 Sundance Film Festival documentary, NUTS! . “An extraordinary saga of the most dangerous quack of all time...entrancing” – USA Today In 1917, John R. Brinkley–America’s most brazen con man–introduced an outlandish surgical method for restoring fading male virility. It was all nonsense, but thousands of eager customers quickly made “Dr.” Brinkley one of America’s richest men–and a national celebrity. The great quack buster Morris Fishbein vowed to put the country’ s “