The Visionaries: From Recovery To Rearmament (Part 2)
4/22/20261 hr 5 min
Why was there a stock market crash in 1929? How did The Great Depression help extremist political parties like the Nazis in Germany gain power? What did President Roosevelt's New Deal in the USA do to help America recover? Join Al Murray and James Holland for part 2 of their most ambitious series yet; a definitive survey of the 20th Century and how the First World War and economic instability of the 20s and 30s caused World War Two, and how the political vision of US Presidents like Roosevelt and Truman strengthened Western Democracies for the Cold War with the USSR. Start your free trial at patreon.com/wehaveways and unlock exclusive content and more. Enjoy livestreams, early access, ad-free listening, bonus episodes, and a weekly newsletter packed with book deals and behind-the-scenes insights. Get your ticket for We Have Ways Fest 6 here! A Goalhanger Production Produced by James Regan Editor: Charlie Rodwell Exec Producer: Tony Pastor Social: @WeHaveWaysPod Social Producer: Harry Balden Email: wehaveways@goalhanger.com Membership Club: patreon.com/wehaveways Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
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First 90 secondsAl Murray· Host0:00
[upbeat jazz music] Thank you for listening to We Have Ways of Making You Talk. Sign up to our Patreon to receive bonus content, live streams, and our weekly newsletter with money off books and museum visits as well, plus early access to all live show tickets. That's patreon.com/wehaveways. [upbeat jazz music] "Economic privation proceeds by easy stages, and so long as men suffer it patiently, the outside world cares little. Physical efficiency and resistance to disease slowly diminish, but life proceeds somehow until the limit of human endurance is reached at least, and counsels of despair and madness stir the sufferers from the lethargy which precedes the crisis. Then man shakes himself and the bonds of custom are loosed. The power of ideas is sovereign, and he listens to whatever instruction of hope, illusion, or revenge is carried to him on the air." And that's John Maynard Keynes, of course, The Economic Consequences of the Peace in 1919. Welcome to We Have Ways of Making You Talk for the second part of our series, The Visionaries, looking at the swirl of events and ideas before and after the Second World War, and the way that, uh, Presidents Franklin Delano Roosevelt and Harry S. Truman responded to those ideas. I think that's the best summary, isn't it, Jim?
James Holland· Host1:26
Yeah, I think it's absolutely perfect.
Al Murray· Host1:27
In our last episode, we, we dangled you the ultimate