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America’s Only Emperor: The Strange, True Story of Emperor Norton
What happens when a city decides kindness is better than cruelty?
In this special crossover episode, we're teaming up with the wonderful folks over at Rainy Day Rabbit Holes to explore one of the strangest — and most unexpectedly heartwarming — stories in American history: Joshua Abraham Norton, the self-declared Emperor of the United States.
Born into loss, shaped by fortune, and broken by ruin, Norton vanished into obscurity — only to reemerge in 1859 with a proclamation that probably should have ended badly. But San Francisco, being San Francisco, leaned in. What followed was a twenty-year…
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