MARCH 6, 2009
History of the World:
Parts II–XII
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Timothy Dickinson — a rumpled, roly-poly fixture at Georgetown pubs and literary gatherings — has a new job: hosting the History Channel’s eleven-part animated online series Great and Telling Tales.
Each of the delightfully idiosyncratic micro-lectures concerns a single topic: Charles Darwin’s health, Halloween, Rasputin, why it was that Nixon sweated so much during his first debate with Kennedy. (The answer? A leg infection.) “History,” Dickinson sneers in one of the shorts. “An endless parade of miseries!” Perhaps, but not the way he tells it.
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Great and Telling Tales by Timothy Dickinson
