If this were the 19th century, Fox News' reigning talking head Tucker Carlson would be an old-school phrenologist. For those who don't keep track of racist pseudoscience or other tropes of social ...
In Laura Purcell’s early-Victorian shocker “The Poison Thread” (Penguin, 350 pages, $16), “nature vs. nurture” is the central conundrum. “That is the question I must ask myself,” says Dorothea ...
BARUCH: MY OWN STORY (337 pp.)—Bernard M. Baruch—Henry Holt ($5). When Bernard Baruch was ten, his mother took him to a phrenologist, one of the highly regarded head candlers of that day (1880). After ...
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