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

In 1917, America's most brazen young con man arrived in the tiny town of Milford, Kansas. Quackbuster Morris Fishbein vowed to put the country's "most daring and dangerous" charlatan out of business. This work offers a marvelous portrait of an audacious rogue on the loose in an America that was ripe for the bamboozling.