Historian David Pietrusza, author of 1920: The Year of Six Presidents, joins the Remnant for part one of an epic tour through 20th century American history. This first episode focuses on the six(!?) presidents of 1920, and on related contemporary national and international history. All the while, a sinister figure lurks in the background, to be explored at greater depth in part two…
Shownotes
- “Cheney” vs. “Cheney”
- 1920: The Year of Six Presidents by David Pietrusza
- Liberal Fascism by Jonah Goldberg
- Judge and Jury: The Life and Times of Judge Kenesaw Mountain Landis by David Pietrusza
- Rothstein: The Life, Times and Murder of the Criminal Genius who Fixed the 1919 World Series by David Pietrusza
- The Age of Reform by Richard Hofstadter
- “Onward Christian Soldiers” anthem
- FDR’s D-Day prayer
- 1932: The Rise of Hitler and FDR―Two Tales of Politics, Betrayal, and Unlikely Destiny
- Rendezvous with Destiny: A History of Modern American Reform: A History of Modern American Reform
- William Jennings Bryan and the Scopes Trial
- “As Maine goes, so goes Vermont”
- Fordney-McCumber Tariff Act
- Washington’s Farewell Address
- Irving Kristol on NATO
- Calvin Coolidge and the Boston Police Strike
- The Ordeal of Woodrow Wilson by Herbert Hoover
- FDR’s Bank Holiday
- JFK speech on experts
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Good episode.
When he started pulling out the trivia from the top of his head about who took the second-place in the 1960 District of Columbia Democratic primary, I was thinking that he had Michael Barone powers, but I see that he must have written a book about that subject and that he was a past president of the Society for American Baseball Research (SABR).
Wow, what a cliffhanger!
Jack’s getting a bit too “wacky morning DJ” with the sounds
Yeah, I was trying to decide if the sound effects were no big deal or mildly annoying.
Re: Hoover – I read somewhere once that Herbert Hoover was probably the only person for whom becoming president of the United States was a retrograde career move.
Up until Trump, anyway. Someone was saying on a podcast recently, I don’t remember which one, that for example Trump handles the helicopter flights from the White House and such more naturally because that was how he lived before, too.
@ me next time.
I liked them, especially the dramatic music every time Woodrow Wilson was mentioned. Don’t let the muggles get you down, Jack.
It’s why I didn’t @jackbutler I might be on an island here
I mostly just thought they were funny. Discussion of the history of progressives can get so serious and depressing, the sound effects helped keep me from wanting to drown myself.