Episode · Behind the Bastards · 2020-03-05
Books mentioned on Part Two: The Founding Father of Fake Cancer Cures
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Robert Evans discussed It Can't Happen Here by Sinclair Lewis and The Medical Messiahs by James Harvey Young.
Books mentioned, in the order they came up
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It Can't Happen Here
It Can't Happen Here by Sinclair Lewis is a 1935 political satire and dystopian novel that explores the rise of fascism in the United States and the election of a demagogic American president.
Discussed“One of the fun bits of little history here is that Winrod was actually the model for Buzz Windrip, the fictional American furer, cooked up by Sinclair Lewis for his book, It Can't Happen Here.”
Where to get it
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The Medical Messiahs
The Medical Messiahs by James Harvey Young is an exploration of quackery, patent medicines, and fraudulent cancer cures in American history.
Discussed“And the book Medical Messiahs points out that American Rally was one of a number of hawky supporting organizations, all of whom were united by an idea called medical freedom, which is quote defined as the right of every individual to seek treatment from Hawky's clinic”
Where to get it
Other mentions in this episode (2) — ad reads, self-promotion and passing references, never counted
“Um including the Amazon page for the book Hawky therapy, when natural cures for science became illegal. And right below that the website. Yeah. title. Right below that is the website for a documentary.”
“So, I was talking about that first page of Google results for Hawky therapy with the Amazon book, you know, when natural cures became illegal. Right below that is the website for a documentary Hawky: How Healing Becomes a Crime.”