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Out of the Darkness The Story of Mary Ellen Wilson

Eric a Shelman

In 1874, an amazing event took place. The American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (ASPCA) initiated the rescue of a severely abused child named Mary Ellen Wilson. Little Mary Ellen as she became known, was beaten, burned, and slashed with scissors, her brutal adoptive mother, Mary...

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The Herd with Colin Cowherd

The hosts discussed Ian O'Connor's new biography of Aaron Rodgers, noting its upcoming release and describing how the author secured limited access to Rodgers to improve the book.

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He's the hardest working man in print journalism in America. He has a book. It's called Out of the Darkness, The Mystery of Aaron Rodgers. It comes out next month.

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The hosts discussed Ian O'Connor's new biography of Aaron Rodgers, noting its upcoming release and describing how the author secured limited access to Rodgers to improve the book.

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He's the hardest working man in print journalism in America. He has a book. It's called Out of the Darkness, The Mystery of Aaron Rodgers. It comes out next month.

It comes out next month. You know, as you've written this book, I don't mean to laugh, but Aaron's like a story a week guy. I keep thinking, do you have to keep doing updates for the book?

I handed in the book in January and at that point, after asking to get him for months and getting no response or being told he's thinking about it, assuming at that point he's not going to talk to me. Generally, my biographies have been unauthorized with limited or no cooperation from the main subject.

In February, I got a message from the Jets. He's actually now willing to talk to you. It wasn't a 10hour sitdown, but a factchecking hour or two. I got two hours with him and great. He answered some questions and made the book better.

Aaron Rodgers was a very difficult subject. I thought Belichick was tough, but compared to Rodgers, I think Belichick was a walk in the park because he was a mystery.

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