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A quick warning, there are curse words that are unbeaped in today's episode of the show.
If you prefer a beeped version, you can find that at our website, thisamericanlife.org.
The People's Almanac came out in the mid-1970s.
It's hard to imagine a more eccentric bestseller.
Over 1,400 pages long,
it read like an encyclopedia written by an excited and precocious 15-year-old who loved all the obscure details of all the knowledge in all the world.
There were sections on the greatest man-made disasters ever and also on the greatest prize fighters,
a guide to buried treasure in the United States,
biographies of famous and infamous scientists,
a history of advertising going back to ancient Greece, and also...
a chapter about a minister who took over a newspaper for a week in the year 1900 and made all editorial decisions,
what was on the front page, what they covered,
based on what he believed Jesus would have done if Jesus had gone into the newspaper game.
And at the end of the book was an address,
a note from the authors asking for suggestions for future editions and asking readers to tell them what parts of the book they liked and disliked.