As Irony Curtain said, Van Doren was the last American to recede into the woodwork in shame after being publicly humiliated. People just don’t do that anymore.
After being outed as an accomplice to cheating on the television game show Twenty One, the public really never heard from him again.
Quiz Show was actually a very good movie portraying the scandal. It was released in a year (1994) with a few other movies that were also well received: The Shawshank Redemption, Forrest Gump, Pulp Fiction, Four Weddings and a Funeral, The Lion King, True Lies, Speed, and The Mask.
I remember watching the Academy Awards that year with my film buddy from college in a Cancun, Mexico bar while we were vacationing. Unbelievable film year.
The comment section is a lesson is Leftivity….AKA Stupidity.
I liked his sister Mamie much better.
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He wrote a really interesting book, A History of Knowledge, that mapped historical events around the globe so you could see the interworkings of the evolution of knowledge. Brilliant guy.
https://www.amazon.com/History-Knowledge-Past-Present-Future/dp/0345373162
How to Read a Book, which he co-wrote, is also a timeless classic.
The Van Doren story shows how far the U.S. has moved. Contrast that “scandel” then with Hillary walking free today.
Very case in point,
Barry ‘Barack Hussein Obama’ Soetoro,,,
I can still wish for the future to follow this history.
Now for the 64 thousand dollar question…
Who’s uglier, Michele Obama or 4 day old road kill in Arizona in July?
Contestant, your answer please……………
For bonus points, which one smells better?……
I know it’s the New Yorker (hold your nose), but read this 2008 article about Van Doren. It’s an interesting read.
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2008/07/28/all-the-answers
@Sylvia: That was a very interesting read. Thank you for sharing it.
Sylvia: Thank you for that link. It was a good, personal account by someone who survived his downfall. Van Doren’s wife was a remarkable woman.
The elizabeth warren of game show contestants.
A brazen cannot be humiliated.
Donna Brazile, anyone?
One must possess a sense of shame. Or pride. Or self-respect. Or something.
Worms and rats feel no humiliation at acting worm and rat-like.
izlamo delenda est …