That Time Alexander Hamilton Invented the Treasury and Political Sex Scandals

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Shocking! Lurid! Tawdry! A History of American Scandals

Kasey Howe & Mark Peikert

76 episodes

6 days ago

We love dining out on bad behavior so much it's practically our national dish. But while some scandals stick, most front-page stories end up forgotten. Till now! Armed only with Google and their own indefatigable curiosity, co-hosts Kasey Howe and Mark Peikert scrabble through the graveyards of forgotten headlines to unearth the stories that once consumed the country. Join the fray as Shocking! Lurid! Tawdry! remembers what America forgot. Logo: Jessica Balaschak | Music: Caveman of Los Angeles by Party Store Music

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That Time Alexander Hamilton Invented the Treasury and Political Sex Scandals

Shocking! Lurid! Tawdry! A History of American Scandals

28 minutes 46 seconds

3 years ago

That Time Alexander Hamilton Invented the Treasury and Political Sex Scandals

Before the musical, before the Got Milk? commercial brought him back into relevancy, Alexander Hamilton was one of the more combative founding fathers. The most scandal-plagued founding father? That is TBD. But today, Kasey explains how Hamilton ended up in an extramarital affair, then blackmailed, then welcomed into cuckolding and then published an entire pamphlet years after the fact about what went down. Did that kill his chances at higher office? And why exactly was Aaron Burr in everyone's lives? Grab your powdered wig and travel back in time to the invention of the political sex scandal.

Logo: Jessica Balaschak

Music: Caveman of Los Angeles by Party Store Music