E29: #29 Death and Taxes!

This week Alice and Kim talk about the guy who got Capone, a chef who got his start selling candy on the subway, and the first people to stand up to the KKK. This episode is sponsored by libro.fm, First Degree from Nimbus Publishing, and The Five from Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. Subscribe to For Real using RSS, Apple Podcasts, or Stitcher. For more nonfiction recommendations, sign up for our True Story newsletter, edited by Kim Ukura. Follow Up My Own Devices by Dessa Tell Me How it Ends by Valeria Luiselli Kate McKinnon is also going to play Elizabeth Holmes for a Hulu adaptation Kidlit These Days New Books Maybe You Should Talk to Someone by Lori Gottlieb Lotharingia: A Personal History of Europe’s Lost Country by Simon Winder The Beneficiary: Fortune, Misfortune, and the Story of My Father by Janny Scott Freedom’s Detective: The Secret Service, the Ku Klux Klan and the Man Who Masterminded America’s First War on Terror by Charles Lane Notes From a Young Black Chef by Kwame Onwuachi Fifty Things That Aren’t My Fault: Essays from the Grown-Up Years by Cathy Guisewhite Death and Taxes April 15 was Tax Day in the United States. In 1913, the 16th Amendment was ratified, permanently legalizing an income tax. A Fine Mess: A Global Quest for a Simpler, Fairer, and more Efficient Tax System by T.R. Reid Eliot Ness: The Rise and Fall of an American Hero by Douglas Perry Gang Leader for a Day: A Rogue Sociologist Takes to the Streets by Sudhir Venkatesh The Great Tax Wars: Lincoln–Teddy Roosevelt–Wilson How the Income Tax Transformed America by Steven R. Weisman Reading Now KIM: Burnout: The Secret to Unlocking the Stress Cycle by Emily Nagoski PhD (Author), Amelia Nagoski DMA ALICE: The Stranger Beside Me by Ann Rule    You can find us on SOCIAL MEDIA – @itsalicetime and @kimthedork on Twitter RATE AND REVIEW on ITUNES so people can find us more easily, and subscribe so you can get our new episodes the minute they come out.