Huguette Clark: The Heiress Who Vanished Into a Hospital Room
With a net worth around 300 million dollars and palatial estates on coveted real estate, Huguette Clark chose to spend the final two decades of her life in a standard hospital room under a fake name, ...
18 Aug 22min
I.F. Stone: The Journalist Who Read the Documents Nobody Would
A high school student near the bottom of his class who dropped out of college, Isidor Feinstein Stone built a legendary, highly influential journalism career not through insider sources but by meticul...
18 Aug 19min
Jacque Fresco: The Futurist Behind the Venus Project
A high school student near the bottom of his class became a self-taught American futurist, industrial designer, and self-proclaimed social engineer who lived to 101. This episode traces the evolution ...
18 Aug 23min
Jaycee Dugard: 18 Years of Captivity and Survival
An 11-year-old girl abducted in broad daylight managed to hide one tiny butterfly ring, a secret token of her identity she kept for the next 18 years. This episode is a profound study of human resilie...
18 Aug 20min
James Frey: The Memoir Scandal That Rocked Oprah's Book Club
James Frey built a wildly successful career on a memoir of addiction and recovery, only to watch that identity get dismantled on live daytime television. This episode looks beyond the headlines at a f...
18 Aug 21min
Jason Blair: The Journalist Who Fabricated the News
A soaring young journalist at one of the world's most prestigious newspapers, Jason Blair saw his career unravel with a single phone call about striking similarities between his work and another paper...
18 Aug 21min
John C. Lilly: From Brain Science to Dolphins and LSD
John C. Lilly was a brilliant scientist whose grade-school teachers nicknamed him Einstein Jr. Born in 1915 into a wealthy St. Paul family, he pivoted from physics to neurophysiology after reading Ald...
18 Aug 23min
