Charles Sherrill was everything a gentleman of his generation was supposed to be: rich, handsome, charming, Ivy-Leagued. He was impossibly well connected and extravagantly mustachioed. He was also the person who, as much as anything, decided whether American athletes would participate in the 1936 Olympics. Faced with one of the great moral dilemmas of the day, America needed the wisdom of Solomon. Instead, it got the wisdom of Sherrill.
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07/04/24 • 32 min
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Revisionist History - Hitler’s Olympics, Part 2: Pangloss, Polonius, Prufrock
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Before we get to this episode, I want to let you know that you can binge the first part of this season right now with a Pushkin Plus subscription. That's four whole episodes before they release to the public. You'll be able to binge the rest of the season on August first with that same subscription. Sign up for Pushkin Plus on Apple Podcasts, or by visiting pushkin dot fm, slash Plus. Now onto the episode Pushkin We Can't. I have never had a sing
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