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Laurie Gwen Shapiro on THE AVIATOR AND THE SHOWMAN
"You can’t work with the estate if you want the real story."
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Bryan Burrough on THE GUNFIGHTERS
"They all became famous for shooting people."
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Joe Pompeo
Michelle Young on THE ART SPY
"The true story of a World War II resistance hero."
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Suzanne Cope on WOMEN OF WAR
"Four anti-fascist Italian women who found their agency and became members of the resistance"
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Kate Summerscale on THE PEEPSHOW
“Johnny, let’s play dig up the bodies!”
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Gary Krist on TRESPASSERS AT THE GOLDEN GATE
"The murder was just about as brazen and scandalous as it gets."
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Matthew Goodman on PARIS UNDERCOVER
"I'm the first person in seventy five years who has discovered this."
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Kate Winkler Dawson on THE SINNERS ALL BOW
"A #MeToo story for the mid-1800s."
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Elyse Graham on BOOK AND DAGGER
"A story about the librarians and scholars who invented modern spycraft."
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Abbott Kahler on EDEN UNDONE
"The stranger-than-fiction true story of a group of Europeans who tried to find utopia on a remote Galápagos island in the 1930s."
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Rachel Maddow and Mike Yarvitz on ULTRA and PREQUEL
"The origin story usually brings you someplace even crazier than the insane character who attracted you to the story in the first place."
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Margalit Fox on THE TALENTED MRS. MANDELBAUM
“Her attire was at once gorgeous and vulgar. She often wore $40,000 worth of jewels at once.”
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