Five Stars !!!
History That's Exciting, Ultra (!) Relevant and Ultimately Reassuring (What a deal!) In 1940 I was 3 and 4 years old, so you wouldn't expect me to be keeping up with the political scene. But I could have told you who Gabriel Heatter and Walter Winchell were: Men on the radio who talked funny. I thought Gabriel Heatter had the funniest name going. ("Gabriel Stove" I said a lot, laughing every time.) I missed most of what they were reporting, probably because I was laughing. Rachael Maddow, and a great MSNBC team have put together an 8-part podcast that makes that 1940 span leap to life, It's modestly called: It's got everything: Deadly plane crash, armed bands of insurrectionists, corrupt politicians, star special prosecutors, nasty anti-Semites, lotsa Nazis, out-of-control lawyers, private spies, Roosevelt haters... oh it's got everything (but sex, and sex isn't nearly as interesting as the other stuff). I rarely-to-never binge, but I we