The Ides of March Assassination Episode
This week Alice and Kim talk about assassinations, small town murder, and why women’s bathroom lines are longer than men’s (spoiler: it’s the patriarchy!).
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Follow Up
The Inventor: Out for Blood in Silicon Valley (2019) (HBO documentary on Theranos)
New Books
Invisible Women: Data Bias in a World Designed for Men by Caroline Criado Perez
The Trial of Lizzie Borden by Cara Robertson
The Lost Gutenberg: The Astounding Story of One Book’s Five-Hundred-Year Odyssey by Margaret Leslie Davis
(People of the Book by Geraldine Brooks)
Humanimal: How Homo sapiens Became Nature’s Most Paradoxical Creature―A New Evolutionary History by Adam Rutherford
The Sakura Obsession: The Incredible Story of the Plant Hunter Who Saved Japan’s Cherry Blossoms by Naoko Abe
Pocahontas and the English Boys: Caught Between Cultures in Early Virginia by Karen Ordahl Kupperman
Assassination Stories!
The Death of Caesar: The Story of History’s Most Famous Assassination by Barry Strauss
Destiny of the Republic: A Tale of Madness, Medicine and the Murder of a President by Candice Millard
Assassination Vacation by Sarah Vowell
The Romanov Sisters by Helen Rappaport
The Assassination of the Archduke: Sarajevo 1914 and the Romance That Changed the World by Greg King and Sue Woolmans
Reading Now
Who Thought This Was a Good Idea by Alyssa Mastromonaco
So Here’s the Thing . . . by Alyssa Mastromonaco
Kings of Georgian Britain by Catherine Curzon
CONCLUSION
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