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22 January 1973 is the date of the US Supreme Court decision of Roe v Wade. By 7-2 the 9 SCOTUS judges - all men - addressed the difficult topic of abortion with great care, respect and sensitivity. Great writing that is notorious and all over the news right now in 2022.  🇺🇸🤦‍♀️👶🩺👨‍⚖️ Get in touch: Email: nudiereads@gmail.com Web: https://about.me/nudiereads Instagram: instagram.com/nudie...

What links Audrey Hepburn and Bailey Sarian? Truman Capote. The famed author of Breakfast at Tiffany's also penned the book that started all this true crime fuss. Capote's "In Cold Blood" is the original true crime work. Thanks Truman, I guess. 🇺🇸✍️😵📖 Get in touch: Email: nudiereads@gmail.com Web: https://about.me/nudiereads Instagram: instagram.com/nudiereads Podcast: https://anchor.fm/nudierea...

On 4 August 1892 Lizzie Borden's step-mother and her father were found murdered by hatchet. Lizzie was found not guilty because her defence, led by AJ Jennings, was top shelf. The very best defence her dead father's money could buy. But she totally did it. Or did she? 🇺🇸🪓🪓🪓🪓🪓🪓 Get in touch: Email: nudiereads@gmail.com Web: https://about.me/nudiereads Instagram: instagram.com/nudiereads Podca...

At a house party in 1816, a 19 year old Mary Wollstonecraft wrote the G.O.A.T of mad scientist stories - 'Frankenstein' - and readers the world over and still today, over 200 years later, are in love with her gothic horror sci fi tale of animation, murder and regret. 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🇬🇧💪🦵🧠👀😳 Get in touch: Email: nudiereads@gmail.com Web: https://about.me/nudiereads Instagram: instagram.com/nudiereads...

In 1830 a cad named Edward Bulwer-Lytton opened his dreadful novel "Paul Clifford" with the words "It was a dark and stormy night" and to this day the Edward Bulwer-Lytton award for bad writing is awarded to purveyors of purple prose. But some great writing was associated with Bulwer-Lytton. Not his own, of course. 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🇬🇧✍️👎😦 Get in touch: Email: nudiereads@gmail.com Web: https://about.me/nu...

In 1812 the Brothers Grimm, Jacob and Wilhelm, published the first of 3 volumes of fairytales which have been terrifying children all over the world for over 200 years. Take Hansel and Gretel. A tale of poverty and cannibalism. Sweet dreams! 🇩🇪👨👧🧙🏡🌳🦆 Get in touch: Email: nudiereads@gmail.com Web: https://about.me/nudiereads Instagram: instagram.com/nudiereads Podcast: https://anchor.fm/nudie...

Si Vis Pacem, Para Bellum. If you want peace, prepare for war. Roman wisdom from the year 430, as the Empire was in decline. An influential little book called De Re Militaris was created to encourage a return to Rome's glory days. The book remained popular with leaders until the 17th century. Not bad for a Roman writer named Vegetius.󠁧󠁢 🇮🇹🥦🛡⚔️☮️ Get in touch: Email: nudiereads@gmail.com Web: http...

The Count of Monte Cristo is a 19th century classic of adventure literature by Alexandre Dumas pere. It might as well have been titled "Revenge is a Dish Best Served Cold" or perhaps "How to escape prison using just a dead body in a sack and a hand-made shank". Serious fun. 🇫🇷⛰🗡😡💰 Get in touch: Email: nudiereads@gmail.com Web: https://about.me/nudiereads Instagram: instagram.com/nudiereads Podca...

Whistler's Mother is the famous American portrait by genius artist James Whistler. His mother was an austere religious woman but she adored being painted. And she couldn't resist writing all about it to her sister in a perfectly worded 'my-boy-is-the-best' letter. Pride is a sin, isn't it? 🇺🇸🎨👩‍👦😉  Get in touch: Email: nudiereads@gmail.com Web: https://about.me/nudiereads Instagram: insta...

Vanity Fair was a 19 month serial published by William Makepeace Thackeray from 1848 and has become a classic of English literature, not least for the incredible character of Becky Sharp to the world. The original Mean Girl and still one of the best. 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🇮🇳🇬🇧😼💅 Get in touch: Email: nudiereads@gmail.com Web: https://about.me/nudiereads Instagram: instagram.com/nudiereads Podcast: https://anch...

Martin Luther liked to run his mouth. He called Pope Leo X the Antichrist. Leo thought Luther was a big fat heretic. At the Diet of Worms in 1521, before Charles V, the Holy Roman Emperor, Luther defended himself and wrote a terrific diary note of how it went down. 🇩🇪⛪️🤴🙏😬 Get in touch: Email: nudiereads@gmail.com Web: https://about.me/nudiereads Instagram: instagram.com/nudiereads Podcast: ht...

Bertha Muzzy was a country gal of the American West. She wrote 57 bestsellers and as many hugely popular short stories all about the American West. Never heard of her? She wrote under the gender-neutral (we would call it today) nom de plume BM Bower. Great writing and handy with a rifle. 🇺🇸🦬🚺 ✍️🚗 Get in touch: Email: nudiereads@gmail.com Web: https://about.me/nudiereads Instagram: instagram.com...

25 July 1947 businessman pilot Kenneth Arnold spots 9 UFOs in Washington State USA and alerts the press. The news report is an error-filled joke but it changes the world and leads to "flying saucers" and UFO-mania. 🇺🇸🛸👽🚀✈ Get in touch: Email: nudiereads@gmail.com Web: https://about.me/nudiereads Instagram: instagram.com/nudiereads Podcast: https://anchor.fm/nudiereads Review: https://ratethispo...

Fyodor Dostoevsky's final novel is considered by many his greatest. From Dr Jordan Peterson to Bailey Sarian readers have loved this soap-opera murder mystery, with its deep philosophical themes of free will and religious belief. Great Russian literature. Thanks Fyodor. 🇷🇺🪆☦️🤦‍♂️🤦‍♂️🤦‍♂️  Get in touch: Email: nudiereads@gmail.com Web: https://about.me/nudiereads Instagram: instagram.com/n...

English architect extraordinaire Inigo Jones believed firmly that the Romans built Stonehenge. His book on the subject is a glorious rollicking alt-history of barbarous Britons and useless Druids. Don't believe a word but enjoy the great writing. 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🇬🇧🇮🇹🍕🫖 Get in touch: Email: nudiereads@gmail.com Web: https://about.me/nudiereads Instagram: instagram.com/nudiereads Podcast: https://anchor.f...

John Stuart Mill wrote On Liberty in 1859 and it is as relevant today as then. Never out of print for over 160 years it's a political philosophy classic. How much liberty do you feel you enjoy where you are? 🇬🇧✍️🔔🎯🐐 Get in touch: Email: nudiereads@gmail.com Web: https://about.me/nudiereads Instagram: instagram.com/nudiereads Podcast: https://anchor.fm/nudiereads Review: https://ratethispodcast....

In 1586 Mary Queen of Scots sent a secret letter about a plot against Queen Elizabeth of England, using what she thought was an uncrackable code. Not only was the code cracked, her letter was edited and led to the rounding up of all plotters and Mary's own head being lopped off. Not a smart lady. But a great writer. 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿👸🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿👸🤫✍️👁 Get in touch: Email: nudiereads@gmail.com Web: https://a...

F.Scott Fitzgerald's "The Great Gatsby" is a classic work of American Jazz Age fiction, published in 1925. It was not a viral hit during his lifetime but it remains an enduring story of a "poor son of a b*tch" nearly 100 years hence for its beautiful writing. 🇺🇸🎺🍸💰💧💔 Get in touch: Email: nudiereads@gmail.com Web: https://about.me/nudiereads Instagram: instagram.com/nudiereads Podcast: https:/...

In 1956 listeners of Jean Shepherd's graveyard-shift radio show in New York City perpetrated the "I, Libertine" hoax. The Night People stuck it to the Day People. And it tickled folks from the UK enough to write beautifully about it. 🇺🇸📡📖🥸☀️🌗 Get in touch: Email: nudiereads@gmail.com Web: https://about.me/nudiereads Instagram: instagram.com/nudiereads Podcast: https://anchor.fm/nudiereads Revi...

In 1926 George Classon wrote ”The Richest Man in Babylon” to teach Americans about sound financial practice and the merits of prosperity. Whether you are earning euros, dollars, pounds or yen this book is for you. No one likes a lean purse. 🇺🇸💰👛🏡💵💶💷💴 Get in touch: Email: nudiereads@gmail.com Web: https://about.me/nudiereads Instagram: instagram.com/nudiereads Podcast: https://anchor.fm/nudi...

In 1944 Wild Bill Donovan of the US Office of Strategic Service produced a Simple Sabotage Field Manual for citizen saboteurs fighting against Axis powers. It's a short, punchy 78-year old perfectly worded 'how to'. Some of it might even sound familiar. 🇺🇸🪖⚠️⛔️ Get in touch: Email: nudiereads@gmail.com Web: https://about.me/nudiereads Instagram: instagram.com/nudiereads Podcast: https://anchor.f...

He's been called 'notorious', 'murderous' and accused of writing 'with Satan's finger' but Niccolo Machiavelli's short book "The Prince" seems to be a fair study of human psychology and motivation. 509 years old and still making people squirm, it's a classic by every measure. 🇮🇹⚜️️✍️💪😱😡 Get in touch: Email: nudiereads@gmail.com Web: https://about.me/nudiereads Instagram: instagram.com/nudieread...

In 2011 a Jerry Lee Lewis fan visited The Killer's home-turned-museum in tiny Ferriday, Louisiana and penned a travelogue to his love. Great writing can be delivered by those closest to you. 🇺🇸⚜️🎹🧑‍🦱🦍 Get in touch: Email: nudiereads@gmail.com Web: https://about.me/nudiereads Instagram: instagram.com/nudiereads Podcast: https://anchor.fm/nudiereads Review: https://ratethispodcast.com/nudiereads

Jules Verne was never recognised by the Academie Francais as a classic French author but we all know he's one of the best writers ever to put pen to paper. Around The World in 80 Days is one of his many classics and it has been gripping readers for 150 years. 󠁧󠁿🇫🇷✍️🚃🛳🌎💰 Get in touch: Email: nudiereads@gmail.com Web: https://about.me/nudiereads Instagram: instagram.com/nudiereads Podcast: https:...

In 1867, after Venice was finally free of the Austrian Empire - having joined the new Kingdom of Italy - the Venetians revived their 71-year dormant Carnival tradition of baroque masks and costumes. A traveller captured the details in this word-perfect report. 🇮🇹👺🎭🐂🇦🇹 Get in touch: Email: nudiereads@gmail.com Web: https://about.me/nudiereads Instagram: instagram.com/nudiereads Podcast: https://...