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Back to SearchHarvey Milk: The Radical Reinvention of a Camera Shop Owner Into America's First Openly Gay Elected Official
Episode 7039
Harvey Milk was a closeted Wall Street analyst, a Barry Goldwater Republican, and a man who showed no signs of political ambition until he was forty.…
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Patty Hearst: The Kidnapped Heiress Who Picked Up a Machine Gun and Defended Her Captors
Episode 7037
Patty Hearst was dragged from her apartment by the Symbionese Liberation Army in 1974 and emerged two months later holding a carbine rifle during a b…
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Jane Fonda: The Actress the United States Senate Called a Traitor
Episode 7034
Jane Fonda won two Academy Awards, built a fitness empire, and became one of the most successful actresses in Hollywood history. She also sat on a No…
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Jim Thorpe: Trash Can Shoes, Stolen Gold Medals, and the Greatest Athlete America Ever Produced
Episode 7042
Jim Thorpe won two Olympic gold medals in the 1912 Stockholm Games wearing mismatched shoes he found in a trash can — because someone had stolen his.…
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Bill Russell: The Eleven-Time Champion Who Demanded an Empty Arena Because Boston Hated Him
Episode 7043
Bill Russell won eleven NBA championships in thirteen seasons — the most dominant run in the history of American professional sports. Boston celebrat…
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The Blind Champion Who Beat Muhammad Ali: The Untold Story of a Fighter Who Could Barely See
Episode 7036
There was a fighter who stepped into the ring against Muhammad Ali and won — despite being legally blind in one eye and severely impaired in the othe…
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Lou Gehrig: The Iron Horse Whose 2,130-Game Streak Hid a Body That Was Already Dying
Episode 7041
Lou Gehrig played 2,130 consecutive games — a record that stood for fifty-six years — and the streak that defined his career may have masked the earl…
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Stanley Kubrick: The Bronx Chess Hustler Who Played Hollywood Like a Grandmaster
Episode 7032
Stanley Kubrick learned strategy hustling chess in Washington Square Park and spent the rest of his career applying it to Hollywood — controlling eve…
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Martina Navratilova: The Defector Who Defied Every Limit Tennis, Gender, and Politics Could Impose
Episode 7030
Martina Navratilova defected from communist Czechoslovakia at eighteen, came out as gay when sponsors would not touch her, revolutionized women's ten…
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James Stewart: The Combat Pilot Who Came Home and Broke Hollywood's Nicest-Guy Mold
Episode 7025
James Stewart flew twenty combat missions over Nazi Germany as a B-24 bomber pilot, earned the Distinguished Flying Cross, and came home to Hollywood…
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