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Part One: Edward Bernays: The Founding Father of Lies

Behind the Bastards

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A Feminist Icon - Eddie Bernays

Eddie Bernays was a feminist icon and problematic one, but credit where it's due. The play is about a man with syphilis who gets married and spawns a syphilitic child. People in 1912 did not talk about STDs in like any context,. Like doctors didn't like talking about them.

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