Episode · Stuff You Should Know · 2024-02-14
Books mentioned on Short Stuff: The Original Snake Oil Salesman
There’s a great origin story behind snake oil salesmen, and it has to do with just one guy who singlehandedly gave it a bad name. See omnystudio.
Josh Clark discussed The Life and Adventures of the American Cow-boy by Clark Stanley and John Brown's Body by Stephen Vincent Benét and others.
Books mentioned, in the order they came up
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The Life and Adventures of the American Cow-boy
Discussed“called The Life and Adventures of the American Cowboy colon life in the Far West in 1897 and it's going to have uh horses and cowboy poetry and like lasso throwing advice”
Where to get it
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John Brown's Body
John Brown's Body by Stephen Vincent Benét is a book-length narrative poem that explores the sweeping human drama of the American Civil War.
Discussed“a poem by Steven Vincent Benet uh called John Brown's Body which is I think fairly famous right”
Where to get it
