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Créditos de la imagen: Pope Brock
Obras de Pope Brock
Etiquetado
Conocimiento común
- Nombre canónico
- Brock, Pope
- Fecha de nacimiento
- 20th century
- Género
- male
- Nacionalidad
- USA
- Lugar de nacimiento
- Atlanta, Georgia, USA
- Lugares de residencia
- New York, USA
Miembros
Reseñas
Listas
Premios
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Estadísticas
- Obras
- 3
- Miembros
- 738
- Popularidad
- #34,415
- Valoración
- 3.8
- Reseñas
- 34
- ISBNs
- 18
- Idiomas
- 1
Far-reaching subject matter includes politics, broadcasting, advertising, roots of country music, deep sea fishing records, and courtroom drama. It includes stories about such notable names as Sinclair Lewis, Eugene Debs, H.L. Mencken, Father Flanagan, and the Carter family.
The author has a knack for evoking the feel of the age he excels at storytelling. While he touches on the continuing saga of people being enticed and exploited in pursuit of health and beauty-related goals, I thought he could have gone a bit further and explored the fine line between true medical research and experimental, unconventional remedies.
Recommended to readers of non-fiction, especially those interested in history of medical regulation or true tales of flamboyant criminals.… (más)