There’s a good argument to be made that the entire trajectory of the Cold War was set off by ten fateful months of American and global history, between the first Soviet atom bomb test in the late summer of 1949 and the outbreak of the Korean War in June 1950. America.” We discuss historically pivotal moment of Hollywood’s rise and a prescient narrative with modern implications: that of cancel culture, artistic freedom, censorship, and the all-important question of whether we should be separating art from the artist. Today’s guest is Scott Eyman, author of “Charlie Chaplin vs. His inappropriate sexual proclivity became another reason for those who opposed his ideas to condemn him. He had been married four times, had had numerous affairs, and was publicly involved in at least three paternity suits. Politics aside, Chaplin had another problem: his l interest in young women. Edgar Hoover persuaded the State Department to revoke Chaplin's visa (a move of doubtful legality). to promote a new picture, FBI director J. He had never become a US citizen, something that would be held against him as xenophobia set in when the Red Scare took hold. But in the aftermath of World War II, Charlie Chaplin was criticized for being politically socialist and internationalist in outlook. We discuss the challenges of a disadvantaged upbringing Lee’s education at West Point and years as an army engineer the role Lee played during the Mexican War, in which he showed courage and level-headedness in the face of combat Lee as a businessman and owner of a farm in Arlington and Stonewall Jackson under Lee’s commandĬharlie Chaplin was the most famous movie star in the world, especially at his height in the 1920s, when the silent film star won the hearts of audience around the globe. His personal standards of excellence and his unflinching character created a formidable force on the battlefield. ![]() Lee on Leadership.” From successfully reviving a debt-ridden plantation, to teaching and working his way to a prestigious university, Lee became an inspiration to the men under his charge. To explore his legacy, and reasons for the drastic change is today’s guest, H.W. But for over a century after the Civil War, he was considered a brilliant general, courageous leader, and, in the words of Winston Churchill, “one of the noblest Americans who ever lived.” Today, however, he is vilified and the virtues of hard work and leadership he inspired are largely forgotten. Lee has become a target of activists in the last decade, with statues of him being taken down across the United States, and eponymous schools and streets being renamed. This show is part of the Spreaker Prime Network, if you are interested in advertising on this podcast, contact us at We discuss a number of characters, including Lord Christopher Thomson, the man who dreamed up the Imperial Airship Scheme and then relentlessly pushed R101 to her destruction Princess Marthe Bibesco, the celebrated writer and glamorous socialite with whom he had a long affair and Herbert Scott, a national hero who had made the first double crossing of the Atlantic in any aircraft in 1919-eight years before Lindbergh’s famous flight-but who devolved into drink and ruin. Gwynne, author His Majesty's Airship: The Life and Tragic Death of the World's Largest Flying Machine. To tell the story of this disaster is today’s guest, S.C. There was just one problem: beyond the hype and technological wonders, these big, steel-framed, hydrogen-filled airships were a dangerously bad idea. No one had ever conceived of anything like this. R101 was not just the largest aircraft ever to have flown and the product of the world’s most advanced engineering-she was also the lynchpin of an imperial British scheme to link by air the far-flung areas of its empire from Australia to India, South Africa, Canada, Egypt, and Singapore. But airships, those airborne leviathans that occupied center stage in the world in the first half of the twentieth century, were a symbol of the future. ![]() The tragic story of the British airship R101-which went down in a spectacular hydrogen-fueled fireball in 1930, killing more people than died in the Hindenburg disaster seven years later-has been largely forgotten.
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