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Podcast: Plain English with Derek Thompson
Episode: Plain History Volume 1: Who Killed President James Garfield?
Description: This is the first episode of a little experiment we’re trying this year, a podcast within a podcast on history that we’re calling, simply enough, 'Plain History.' There are, I am well aware, a great number of history podcasts out there. But one thing I want to do with this show is to pay special attention to how the past worked. In this episode, for example, we're using the assassination of an American president to consider the practice of medicine in the 19th century.Our subject today is the bestseller 'Destiny of the...