Lester Glick was one of the 36 young men who signed up for the Minnesota Starvation Experiment. Unlike so many of his counterparts, Glick did not leave an oral history of his experience at the Library of Congress. This is the final episode of our look at the starvation experiment won by Ansel Keys during the Second World War. After listening to Revisionist History my podcast about things overlooked and misunderstood. Today I want to tell a story of Lester Glick, what happened to him after the experiment and how he made sense of all the suffering he'd been through.
Lester Glick’s year in the Minnesota Starvation Experiment cost him his hoped-for career and also left him with an eating disorder for the rest of his life. But like many of the other volunteers, he said he would have done it again in a heartbeat. Revisionist History explores the scientific legacy of this experiment, and asks whether it’s time to reimagine our understanding of sacrifice.
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