Rob Reid
speaker
1,484 appearances
4 recordings
1 series
first heard Jun 2026
last heard 23 Aug
Rob Reid’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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Joseph once chased a tutor out of the window when the tutor made the mistake of insisting on teaching mathematics rather than entertaining the youth with war stories from history.
Joseph didn't take well to formal instruction, but he did love the pleasures of reading.
Their house was filled with books.
Joseph favored works of history and biography.
And a short while later, his father's going to die, and this plunges the family into poverty.
Only 47 years old and at the peak of his business success, he had contracted tuberculosis.
Joseph understood more fully the extent of the calamity.
He had been nine.
Listen to what he had experienced when he was a kid.
He had been nine when his older brother died, 10 when his younger brothers and sister died, 11 when his father died, and 13 at the death of his last sister.
The deaths of his family led to an obsession with his health that would remain with him until the end of his life.
Every ailment, no matter how small, was accompanied by an underlying fear that he was dying.
His father's death created a financial nightmare.
It was only a matter of time before the enterprise went bankrupt.
Within six months, their property was seized by authorities for failure to pay taxes.
The family limped along.
Years later, Pulitzer conveyed the toll from the deaths.
He described himself as a poor orphan who had never even enjoyed as much of a luxury as a father.
And so at 17 years old, Pulitzer escapes to America, and this is how.
His only path forward is to risk his life fighting in the American Civil War.
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