Dr. Brinkley's tower
Subtitle: a novel
By: Robert Hough
Edition: 1st U.S. ed.
Publisher: Steerforth Press
Published: 2013
Place of publication: Hanover, N.H
Language: eng
Number of pages: 420
ISBN-13: 9781586422035
Subjects: Swindlers and swindling; Radio broadcasting; Fiction; History
Other titles: Doctor Brinkley's tower
Description: In the 1931 war-ravaged Mexico border town of Corazon de la Fuente, where the only enterprise in town is a brothel, Dr. Romulus Brinkley decides to build a gargantuan new radio tower to broadcast his miraculous "goat gland operation" said to cure sexual impotence. Inspired by the shenanigans of a real life American con man.
Notes: Includes questions for discussion.

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