Behind the Bastards

There’s a reason the History Channel has produced hundreds of documentaries about Hitler but only a few about Dwight D. Eisenhower. Bad guys (and gals) are eternally fascinating. Behind the Bastards dives in past the Cliffs Notes of the worst humans in history and exposes the bizarre realities of their lives. Listeners will learn about the young adult novels that helped Hitler form his monstrous ideology, the founder of Blackwater’s insane quest to build his own Air Force, the bizarre lives of the sons and daughters of dictators and Saddam Hussein’s side career as a trashy romance novelist.

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episode 94: Part One: The Bastard Who Invented The Lobotomy

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In Episode 94, Robert is joined by Daniel Van Kirk to discuss Walter Freeman, the father of lobotomies.


FOOTNOTES:

  1. The Lobotomist
  2. Walter Freeman: The Father of the Lobotomy
  3. Rosemary Kennedy: the sad life of President Kennedy's younger sister
  4. Rosemary Kennedy: Telling the story of a forgotten daughter
  5. Inside Rosemary Kennedy's Disastrous Lobotomy – And How Her Father Chose Her Doctor
  6. Walter Freeman: The Father of the Lobotomy
  7. He was bad, so they put an ice pick in his brain...
  8. Joe Kennedy, Sr sought secret deal with De Valera on Irish ports during the War
  9. Mental Illness Is On the Rise in the U.S. for a Frustrating Reason
  10. The Lobotomist: A Maverick Medical Genius and His Tragic Quest to Rid the World of Mental Illness 
  11. My Lobotomy

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 November 5, 2019  58m