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Back to SearchRobert Kennedy: From Ruthless Political Enforcer to Prophetic Voice for American Justice
Episode 7062
Robert Kennedy spent the first half of his career as his brother's ruthless enforcer — wiretapping Martin Luther King Jr., pursuing Jimmy Hoffa with …
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Maria Theresa: The Habsburg Empress Who Ruled an Empire From a Glass Cliff
Episode 7059
Maria Theresa inherited the Habsburg throne because her father had no sons — and half of Europe immediately tried to take it from her. She was twenty…
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Ted Kennedy: How Scandal and Tragedy Forged the Most Powerful Senate Machine in American History
Episode 7053
Ted Kennedy was the last surviving Kennedy brother, the man who should have been president but was destroyed by Chappaquiddick, and the senator who b…
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Camillo Cavour: The Machiavellian Diplomat Who Manipulated Italy Into Existence
Episode 7052
Camillo Cavour never fired a gun or led a charge, but he unified Italy more effectively than any general could have. The prime minister of Piedmont-S…
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Mustafa Kemal Ataturk: The Military Commander Who Created Modern Turkey From Ottoman Ruins
Episode 7051
Mustafa Kemal Ataturk took a defeated, occupied empire and built a secular republic from its wreckage in less than a decade. He abolished the calipha…
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Hubert Humphrey: The Happy Warrior Whose Presidential Ambition Cost Him Everything
Episode 7055
Hubert Humphrey delivered the most consequential convention speech in American political history — his 1948 civil rights address that split the Democ…
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John Brown: The Abolitionist Whose Prophecy of Blood Came True at Harpers Ferry
Episode 7057
John Brown raided the federal arsenal at Harpers Ferry with twenty-one men in 1859, intending to spark a slave insurrection across the South. The rai…
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Steve Jobs: The Adopted College Dropout Who Hacked Reality and Rebuilt the World
Episode 7054
Steve Jobs was adopted, dropped out of college, was fired from the company he founded, and came back to build the most valuable corporation in histor…
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Grover Cleveland: The President Who Had Secret Cancer Surgery on a Yacht
Episode 7050
Grover Cleveland had a cancerous tumor removed from his jaw aboard a friend's yacht in Long Island Sound while the nation was told he was on a fishin…
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James K. Polk: The One-Term President Who Conquered Half a Continent and Kept Every Promise
Episode 7056
James K. Polk entered the White House with four goals — acquire California, settle the Oregon boundary, reduce the tariff, and establish an independe…
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