John Mulaney: The Good Boy Who Had to Destroy His Image
He was the meticulously tailored former altar boy who built an empire on being the smartest, safest, most put-together guy in the room. Then that same man was secretly buying cocaine in the middle of ...
23 Juni 20min
John Singer Sargent: The Outsider Who Painted the Elite
In 1884 a single portrait with a fallen jeweled dress strap caused such an uproar at the Paris Salon that it destroyed its painter's French career overnight and forced him to flee to London in disgrac...
23 Juni 23min
John L. Lewis: Public Enemy to Architect of the Middle Class
In 1943, 87% of Americans disapproved of him and Time magazine drew him as a dangerous volcano. Decades later, he was eulogized for making half a million coal miners the best-paid industrial workers o...
23 Juni 20min
John McCain: The Maverick Forged by Failure and Captivity
He graduated 894th out of 899 at the Naval Academy, racked up demerits like high scores, and crashed multiple military jets. On paper he looked headed for a disciplinary discharge, not a half-century ...
23 Juni 20min
John Wesley: The Spiritual Biohacker Who Founded Methodism
Pulled from a burning rectory at age five, John Wesley spent his life convinced he was saved for a special destiny. He then tried to engineer his own salvation through relentless rules, hourly prayer ...
23 Juni 20min
Jonathan Edwards: The Gentle Genius Behind America's Scariest Sermon
The man behind the most terrifying fire-and-brimstone sermon in American history did not shout. He spoke in a quiet, calm voice, obsessed over the delicate beauty of ballooning spiders, and ultimately...
23 Juni 21min
Jordan Peele: From Sketch Comedy to Horror Mastermind
A puppetry major and dropout who built his name doing celebrity impressions in heavy makeup somehow became the first African American to win the Oscar for Best Original Screenplay, for a subversive ho...
23 Juni 19min
Joseph McCarthy: The Stage Magician of the Red Scare
Tail Gunner Joe claimed 32 combat missions, a commendation from Admiral Nimitz, and a war wound from anti-aircraft fire. In reality the wound came from a drunken hazing party, and he forged the Nimitz...
23 Juni 24min
