Perspective | How TV’s Perry Mason Reflected a Dated, Stereotypical View of Insurance

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Risk & Insurance - Oct 21, 2020

With life on hold, I binge-watched dozens of Perry Mason black-and-white TV shows from the 1950s and 60s. Mason was a Los Angeles attorney, the creation of novelist Erle Stanley Gardner. The Mason books rate third in the all-time list of best-selling book series behind Harry Potter and R.L. Stine’s...

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