This is a book club episode. In it, Travis and Amanda will discuss and analyze the first half of Wilde in America by David M. Friedman. You should expect full “spoilers,” discussions of rhetorical elements, and celebrations / critiques of style and substance.
From the cover: “David M. Friedman’s lively and often hilarious narrative whisks us across nineteenth-century America, from the mansions of Gilded Age Manhattan to roller-skating rinks in Indiana…But, as Friedman shows, Wilde was no mere clown; he was a strategist….Wilde in America is an enchanting tale of travel and transformation, comedy and capitalism - an unforgettable story that teaches us about our present as well as our past.”