• #98 'So coarse, so manly' - Ep 2 Murder. Mystery at the North Pole

  • May 22 2024
  • Length: 44 mins
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#98 'So coarse, so manly' - Ep 2 Murder. Mystery at the North Pole

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  • Robert Peary’s backers were the wealthy railway barons and bankers of New York. It didn’t matter to them whether Peary was the first to get to the North Pole or not. What mattered to them in 1909 was that he would say he’d reached the Pole, and then tell a strong, manly tale about it. In their eyes the future of Americans, as the tough frontier people, depended upon it. It may well have pushed Peary, a man who was known to be both ruthless and exploitative, towards murder…

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