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Wednesday, September 20, 2017

THE GIANT KILLER Chapter Four

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I know that both Phineas T. Barnum and George Hull each possessed “the ingenuity to dupe, diddle, defraud and gull a whole continent.” B...
Tuesday, September 19, 2017

THE GIANT KILLER Chapter Three

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I suspect that George “the giant killer” Hull suffered from a condition known at the time as “moral insanity”. Perhaps this is why his ...
Monday, September 18, 2017

THE GIANT KILLER Chapter Two

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I think the greatest insight into the black heart and soul of George Hull, a “confirmed scoundrel”, in the words of a one critic, came ...
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