Historium
Did you ever fall asleep in history class? You’re not alone. History can be boring when focusing on only dates and statistics. Historium seeks to find the narrative of history in some of the most unlikely places. Seamlessly blending history and storytelling, Jake Barton draws you into historical tales you’ve probably never heard before.
Historium
#72: The Trial of Sunshine Charlie
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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