About this episode

The episode explores the career of E. Virgil Neal, who transitioned from writing textbooks to becoming a stage hypnotist and engaging in questionable mail-order businesses.

E. Virgil Neal’s career started out with writing successful textbooks, but then took a turn into being a stage hypnotist and then a series of dicey mail-order businesses.

Topics covered

• hypnotism
• fraud
• business
• history
• textbooks

Keywords

• E. Virgil Neal
• hypnotist
• fraudster
• textbooks
• mail-order businesses

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