Historium

#72: The Trial of Sunshine Charlie

Jake Barton

Summer 1929 was the pinnacle of a new era of banking, and Charles E. Mitchell emblematized the live-fast-die-young ethos of roaring twenties stock salesmen. As the Great Crash led into the Great Depression, Charlie’s ambition brought about his downfall and forced him to go toe-to-toe with one of most doggedly committed prosecutors of the era: Ferdinand Pecora. It’s a story that’s more timely now than ever.

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Music:

  • Hindustan by Bob Crosby & The Bob Cats
  • Dogtown Blues by Bob Crosby & The Bob Cats
  • Adagio in G Minor for Strings and Organ by the London Philharmonic Orchestra
  • Easy Opium by Ben von Wildenhaus
  • Battle of the Species by Antibalas
  • Music for the Royal Fireworks by Handel
  • One Bad Motherfucker in His Day by Ben von Wildenhaus
  • Reckless by Brocker Way
  • The Ox by The Who
  • Potato Boy by Mac Demarco
  • Tryouts by Brocker Way
  • Heartaches by Al Bowlly
  • The Beast by Dick Dale
  • Let There Be Drums by Sandy Nelson
  • It Was a Town by Brocker Way
  • Glass Etudes by Etudes No. 6 by Philip Glass
  • Etude by Joep Beving
  • In Love and Justice by Colin Stetson 
  • Happy Days are Here Again by Ben Selvin & The Crooners
  • End of Summer Part 2 by Johann Johannsson
  • Less Likely by Trent Reznor
  • 1929 by Merle Haggard

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