Did Joe Gould Really Write "The Oral History of Our Time"?

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Historian Jill Lepore talks about her restless search for the long-lost manuscript, "The Oral History of Our Time."  It ran some nine million words and was supposedly the work of a madman named Joe Gould, who believed he was the 20th century's most brilliant historian.