Shocking! Lurid! Tawdry! A History of American Scandals

That Time Geraldo Rivera Published a Salacious Memoir and Almost Instantly Regretted It


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Before Geraldo was throwing punches and chairs at neo Nazis on his daytime talk show, he was a respected journalist and noted Horny Man. And his 1991 memoir Exposing Myself dedicated possibly more time to the latter. Join Kasey as Mark leads her down a wild hedonistic path from Al Capone's vault to a Bette Midler interview with Barbara Walters to a shocking third-act twist when Rivera pens a new afterward for the paperback edition, addressing the uproar he caused by including so many stories about sex on the job.

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Shocking! Lurid! Tawdry! A History of American ScandalsBy Kasey Howe & Mark Peikert

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