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American Experience
1988 · TV series · documentary · 55 min episodes · 37 seasons
TV's most-watched history series brings to life the compelling stories from our past that inform our understanding of the world today.
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An excellent book. I read his research lasted seven years.
Worth noting: there is an American Experience documentary based on this book (with a primary focus on the Damascus incident), but it’s nowhere near as good as the text.
There's an episode of American Experience from PBS that's about the 1918 flu epidemic that's also good.
The PBS American Experience episode, "Silicon Valley," is an excellent retelling of the Noyce-Fairchild-Intel story, well worth watching. The full episode doesn't appear to be online anymore, but here are the first 16 minutes: https://www.pbs.org/video/american-experience-silicon-valley-chapter-1/
http://www.cracked.com/article_16079_the-10-craziest-scientific-experiments-ever-conducted.html
I believe no truer words have been spoken than the opening of the section on Midgley in that article -
"Thomas Midgley Jr. Tried Really Hard to Destroy the World"
The man was the template for a Mad Scientist and the closest thing to a super villain there has been. It's a bit of poetic justice he died as a result of one of his own contraptions.
There is an episode of American Experience that has a part on the introduction of leaded gasoline that covers it better than the Cracked article, it's just not as funny.
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/films/poisoners/