Books & Bites with Author Ronnie Evans

Refreshments and Program Sponsored by the Friends of the Macon County Public Library:
Dr. John R. Brinkley was an infamous, eclectic practitioner of the 1930’s, who rose to fame and fortune with his goat-gland surgery, professing to restore aging men’s virility. In the process he revolutionized the idea of transplant surgery, political campaigning, radio technology advertising enhanced by string-band mountain musicians, which led to the popularization of Country Music.
This book is about Brinkley’s humble beginnings in the mountains of Western North Carolina and his quest to become a doctor in Chicago, on the plains of Kansas, down at the southern border in Del Rio, Texas, where he eventually established the world’s most powerful radio broadcast station in Mexico. He became a multi-millionaire, all the while jousting in the courtrooms with his American Medical Association nemesis, Dr. Morris Fishbein.
 

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Franklin NC
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