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Title Page
Dedication
Contents
Introduction
Part 1 - Arts & Literature
Chapter 1 - The Original Grimmer Fairy Tales
Chapter 2 - Shakespeare’s Sexual Puns: “Sweet Bottom-Grass” and Others
Chapter 3 - Secret Lives of the Artists
Chapter 4 - Forgotten Failure by Future Geniuses
Chapter 5 - Revenge Against Critics
Chapter 6 - Suppressed Illicit Works
Chapter 7 - High Art: Snorting and Swigging the Muse
Chapter 8 - Fraud: Old Master on Trial
Chapter 9 - Flagrant Misquotes from “Go West, Young Man” to “Spare the Rod”
Part 2 - Business
Chapter 10 - Dirty Money: Tracing Famous American Fortunes
Chapter 11 - Child Labor: Rampant in the United States Before World War II
Chapter 12 - Bitter Business Feuds
Chapter 13 - Business Ethics: An Oxymoron?
Chapter 14 - Cocaine in Coca-Cola and the Corner Drugstore
Chapter 15 - Pocahontas Lights Up and Other Smoking Tales
Chapter 16 - Scams: The Original Ponzi Scheme
Chapter 17 - Financial Grab Bag
Part 3 - Crime & Punishment
Chapter 18 - The Not So Fine Art of Executing Criminals
Chapter 19 - The Pope Blesses Torture
Chapter 20 - Investigation: Centuries of Rushing to Judgment
Chapter 21 - Unjustly Forgotten Criminals
Chapter 22 - Georgia Justice is Blind, Deaf, and Dumb
Chapter 23 - Misconceptions: Bonnie Parker: She Was No Faye Dunaway
Chapter 24 - Odd Cases: Bestiality and the Law
Part 4 - Everyday Life
Chapter 25 - The Toilet Training of the Human Race
Chapter 26 - The Evolution of Underwear
Chapter 27 - The Underside of Breastfeeding
Chapter 28 - Missteps in Men’s Fashion
Chapter 29 - Hair Strategies Through the Ages
Chapter 30 - The Smell of History: Filthy Saints
Chapter 31 - Etiquette Rules for Breaking Wind and Bread
Chapter 32 - When Men Were Men and Wives Were Chattel
Chapter 33 - Flogging Knowledge into Young Scholars
Chapter 34 - Curse Words Before Today’s Four-Letter Drudgery
Chapter 35 - Painfully Odd Entertainment
Part 5 - Medicine
Chapter 36 - Medical History: A Tradition of Incompetence
Chapter 37 - Anatomy: Doctors and Body-Snatchers
Chapter 38 - Mistreating the Mentally Ill
Chapter 39 - Research: Humans as Lab Rats
Chapter 40 - Bizarre Breakthroughs
Chapter 41 - Peering Over the Shoulder of Early Gynecologists
Chapter 42 - Malpractice Miscellany
Chapter 43 - Dentistry Before Novocaine
Part 6 - Religion
Chapter 44 - The Indecent Forgotten Parts of the Bible
Chapter 45 - Holy Relics: Jesus’ Foreskin
Chapter 46 - Bad Popes and Vatican Bordellos
Chapter 47 - The Unholy Crusades
Chapter 48 - The Profit Motive Behind the Inquisition
Chapter 49 - More Intolerance
Chapter 50 - Odd Cults: Castration, Flagellation, and Early Withdrawal
Chapter 51 - Seducing the Faithful
Chapter 52 - Divine Catchall
Part 7 - Science
Chapter 53 - Wrongly Credited Inventions
Chapter 54 - Scientific Genius! Commercial Dunce?
Chapter 55 - Naked Baseball and the Birth of Motion Pictures
Chapter 56 - Secret Lives of the Scientists
Chapter 57 - Silliness of Prizes
Chapter 58 - Darwin: No Rush to Publish
Part 8 - Sex
Chapter 59 - Cast A Giant Shadow: Penis Size
Chapter 60 - Sexual Accidents: Lost and Found
Chapter 61 - American Prostitution: Red, White, and Very Blue
Chapter 62 - Cunning Tips from Forgotten Love Manuals
Chapter 63 - Early Psychiatry Explores the First “Deviants”
Chapter 64 - The Challenges of Masturbation
Chapter 65 - Sex After Marriage
Chapter 66 - Vintage Misconceptions
Chapter 67 - The Sexual Side of Slavery
Chapter 68 - Painful Fetishes
Chapter 69 - Erotica: Napoleon, Lincoln, and Others
Part 9 - World History
Chapter 70 - Defending Democracy in Ancient Athens
Chapter 71 - If I Ruled the World …
Chapter 72 - Witches: Religious Martyrs? Sexual Athletes?
Chapter 73 - Marie-Antoinette’s Dog of A Lover
Chapter 74 - Spies With A Twist
Chapter 75 - Chivalry: A Knight on Errands
Chapter 76 - Snapshots of the Nazis
Part 10 - American History
Chapter 77 - Explorers Don’t Need A Welcome Mat
Chapter 78 - New England Witches Were Also Men and Dogs, 1692
Chapter 79 - Scalping the Indians
Chapter 80 - Unsung American “Pirates” Helped Win the Revolutionary War
Chapter 81 - Presidential Sex Scandals
Chapter 82 - Civil War: Seceding from Conventional Wisdom
Chapter 83 - Racist Relations
Chapter 84 - The not So Wild West
Chapter 85 - From the Annals of American Journalism
Chapter 86 - Respinning Two Notorious Scandals
Chapter 87 - Parting Shots
Acknowledgments, Sources & Picture Credits
Acknowledgments
Sources
Picture Credits
Copyright
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