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Ida Tarbell: The Woman Who Took Down Standard Oil
Aug 23, 202622 min
Isadora Duncan: The Barefoot Rebel Who Reinvented Dance
Aug 23, 202618 min
Ivan Mazepa: The Cossack Leader Cursed as Traitor, Hailed as Founder
Aug 23, 202625 min
Jack Kevorkian: The Making of Doctor Death
Aug 23, 202620 min
Jackie Kennedy: The Strategic Mind Behind the Sunglasses
Aug 23, 202618 min
John L. Sullivan: The First True Sports Superstar
Aug 23, 202625 min
John McPhee: How a Master Made Facts Read Like Fiction
Aug 23, 202620 min
John Wesley Hardin: The Preacher's Son Turned Frontier Killer
Aug 23, 202618 min
Joseph Bonanno: The Mob Boss Who Died in a Sunlit Bed
Aug 23, 202623 min
Karen Silkwood: The Whistleblower and the Missing Folder
Aug 23, 202622 min
Klaus Barbie: The Butcher of Lyon Who Escaped Justice
Aug 23, 202613 min
Lady Bird Johnson: The Hidden Architect of a Presidency
Aug 23, 202621 min
Larry McMurtry: The Cowboy Writer Who Hated Ranching
Aug 23, 202622 min
Lavinia Warren: The Tiny Titan of Victorian Celebrity
Aug 23, 202619 min
Mary Putnam Jacobi: The Doctor Who Weaponized Data
Aug 23, 202616 min
Dr. Jerri Nielsen: Surviving Cancer at the South Pole
Aug 23, 202622 min
Lavrenty Beria: The Architect of Soviet Terror
Aug 23, 202619 min
Grigory Zinoviev: The Revolutionary Devoured by His Machine
Aug 23, 202621 min
The Many Lives Behind One Common Name: Bob Marshall
Aug 23, 202617 min
The Kangxi Emperor: Boy King to Golden Age Architect
Aug 23, 202616 min
David Greenglass: The Spy Who Doomed His Own Sister
Aug 23, 202617 min
Dutch Schultz: The Beer Baron and His Buried Fortune
Aug 23, 202623 min
Irena Sendler: The Woman Who Smuggled Children to Safety
Aug 23, 202622 min
Frank Snepp: The CIA Analyst Who Took On the Government
Aug 23, 202620 min
Bugsy Siegel: The Gangster Who Dreamed of Hollywood
Aug 23, 202627 min
Barry Marshall Drank Bacteria to Prove the Cause of Ulcers
Aug 23, 202619 min
Crawford Long: The Doctor Who Discovered Anesthesia First
Aug 23, 202621 min
John Gotti: How the Dapper Don's Ego Destroyed the Mafia
Aug 23, 202621 min
James M. Cain: How Failure Forged Hard-Boiled Crime Fiction
Aug 23, 202619 min
Yue Fei: The Loyal General Executed by His Own Emperor
Aug 23, 202625 min
Roy Bean: The Hanging Judge Who Never Hanged Anyone
Aug 23, 202622 min
Dashiell Hammett: The Detective Novelist Who Lived His Code
Aug 23, 202621 min
Adolf Eichmann: The Desk Murderer of the Holocaust
Aug 23, 202621 min
Chiune Sugihara: The Diplomat Who Wrote Visas to Save Lives
Aug 23, 202620 min
Zhang Zuolin: The Illiterate Bandit Who Ruled Manchuria
Aug 23, 202623 min
Daniel Pearl: The Journalist Who Built Bridges With Facts
Aug 23, 202617 min
Christiaan Barnard: The Surgeon Who Dared the First Heart Transplant
Aug 23, 202624 min
William Henry Johnson: The Man Behind Zip the Pinhead
Aug 23, 202617 min
Alexander Kerensky: The Man Who Ruled Russia for Three Months
Aug 23, 202616 min
Howard Zahniser: The Architect of America's Wilderness Act
Aug 23, 202619 min
Frank Nitti: The Cautious Businessman Behind Capone's Empire
Aug 23, 202620 min
The Venerable Bede: The Monk Who Standardized How We Count Years
Aug 23, 202620 min
Lincoln Steffens: The Muckraker Who Lost Faith in Reform
Aug 23, 202621 min
Beate Klarsfeld: From a Hitler-Voting Family to Nazi Hunter
Aug 23, 202625 min
Julius Streicher: The Teacher Who Weaponized a Printing Press
Aug 23, 202619 min
Frank James: The Bookish Outlaw Who Sold His Own Legend
Aug 23, 202620 min
Pugachev: The Peasant Impostor Who Shook Catherine the Great
Aug 23, 202618 min
Iceberg Slim: The Ruthless Pimp Who Became a Literary Pioneer
Aug 23, 202620 min
Zheng Yi Sao: The Woman Who Ran History's Largest Pirate Fleet
Aug 23, 202621 min
Henry Morgan: The Privateer Who Sued to Avoid Being Called a Pirate
Aug 23, 202623 min