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Ep. 3: Franklin Delano Roosevelt (Presidents Are People Too)

By: Alexis Coe, Elliott Kalan, Francesca Urbin, Itzhak Perlman
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Alexis and Elliott visit Hyde Park, N.Y., home of #32, Franklin Delano Roosevelt. While there, they chat with National Park Ranger Francesca Urbin about FDR's bartending skills and examine Eleanor's contentious relationship with her mother-in-law. And Grammy Award-winning violin virtuoso Itzhak Perlman, who survived polio as a child, helps shed light on the challenges of being a public figure with a disability.

Presidents Are People Too!, an Audible Original, recasts each of the American presidents as real-life people, complete with flaws, quirks, triumphs, scandals and bodily ailments. Hosts Elliott Kalan, former Daily Show head writer, and American historian and author Alexis Coe talk to experts, comedians, journalists, actors and re-enactors to better understand the men memorialized on the Washington Mall and those all but forgotten.

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Dreadful Revisionism and Propaganda

Totally brushes past FDRs megalomania, his fourth term, and his repeated efforts to corrupt SCOTUS. No mention of the incompetent handling of the depression economy. No mention of FDRs idiotic intensional wide scale destruction of farm crops and live stock to increase food prices when so many were unemployed and hungry.

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