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Podcast: Book Club From Hell
Episode: #76 A Pickle for the Knowing Ones - Lord Timothy Dexter
Description: Lord Timothy Dexter was an 18th century American businessman, who made a great deal of money through a series of bizarre, lucky and, probably, stupid ventures. Shipping coal to Newcastle, selling hot water bottles in the West Indies, speculating on Continental Currency at the end of the American Civil War: Dexter managed to keep turning profits, despite having left school at age eight. A Pickle for the Knowing Ones (1802) was his gift to the world: an almost entirely unpunctuated and misspelled tract of philosophical musings, many of which are complaints about his long-suffering wife. There are too...