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John StrausbaughWhen Donald Duck Heiled HitlerSend us a textDuring World War II, Walt Disney Studios produced many propaganda cartoons for the government, starring Donald Duck and other well-known characters. Their subjects ranged from the importance of paying your income tax to farting in Der Fuehrer's Face."The Spirit of '43":https://archive.org/details/TheSpirit..."Education for Death":https://archive.org/details/youtube-l..."Der Fuehrer's Face":https://archive.org/details/DerFuehre...#disney #waltdisney #waltdisneystudios #donaldduck #derfuehrer'sface #derfuehrer #hitler #nazi #worldwarII #propaganda #cartoon #popeye #bugsbunny #mussolini #hirohito #internetarchive...2025-04-1104 min
The Brian Lehrer Show100 Years of 100 Things: Greenwich VillageAs our centennial series continues, John Strausbaugh, author of The Village: 400 Years of Beats and Bohemians, Radicals and Rogues, a History of Greenwich Village (Ecco, 2013) and most recently, The Wrong Stuff: How the Soviet Space Program Crashed and Burned (PublicAffairs (2024), takes us through the rich history of Greenwich Village.
2025-03-3132 minJohn StrausbaughAn Isolationist Anthem: "God Bless America"Send us a textIn 1938, with war looming in Europe, Irving Berlin offered popular singer Kate Smith a new patriotic song to debut on her radio show. It’s forgotten today that in the form she sang it, “God Bless America” wasn’t just a patriotic anthem, it was an isolationist one, about how glad Americans should be that they were far from the “storm clouds” gathering “across the sea.” Then, just one day before Smith’s broadcast, the Nazis made one of their most despicable moves yet, and everything changed.#irving berlin #katesmith #godblessamerica #isolationism #nazi...2025-03-2407 minJohn StrausbaughThe Brown Bomber v. Hitler's SupermanSend us a textOn the night of Wednesday, June 22, 1938, the whole world was focused on Yankee Stadium. Joe Louis, nicknamed the Brown Bomber, was fighting a rematch with Max Schmeling, called Hitler’s Superman. This was much more than a prizefight. Around the world, this was seen as a symbolic duel between democracy and fascism, freedom and slavery, white and black.#joelouis #maxschmeling #boxing #hitler #nazis #prizefighting #yankeestadium #johnstrausbaugh2025-02-2609 min
The Orthogonal BetJohn Strausbaugh on The Harsh Realities of the Soviet Space ProgramIn this episode, host Samuel Arbesman speaks with John Strausbaugh, a former editor of New York Press and the author of numerous history books. John’s latest work is the compelling new book “The Wrong Stuff: How the Soviet Space Program Crashed and Burned.”The book is an eye-opening delight, filled with stories about the Potemkin Village-like space program that the Soviets ran. Beneath the achievements that alarmed the United States, the Soviet space program was essentially a shambling disaster. The book reveals many tales that had been hidden from the public for years. In this conversation, Samuel exp...2025-02-1533 minJohn StrausbaughWeegee's Naked CitySend us a textNo one captured New York City in its noir 1930s and 1940s better than the photographer Arthur Fellig, better known as Weegee. Ceaselessly roaming New York's streets, often at night while his competitors slept, Weegee took thousands and thousands of photos that visually defined what he called the Naked City. An exhibition of his work is on view at the International Center of Photography on the Lower East Side until May 2025.#weegee #newyorkcity #nakedcity #internationalcenterof photography #worldwartwo #johnstrausbaugh2025-02-0607 minJohn StrausbaughFolkways' Moe AschSend us a textWhen Moe Asch died in 1986, his extraordinarily eclectic Folkways Records had put out 2,186 long-playing records, from Woody Guthrie to Ho Chi Minh, Leadbelly to Langston Hughes, jazz, gospel, Yiddish music, calypso, and instructional records like "Speech After the Removal of the Larynx." Most did not sell well, but at least one of them, Harry Smith's "Anthology of American Folk Music," set off a seismic shift in American culture. #johnstrausbaugh #bobdylan #moeasch #folkwaysrecords #peteseeger #woodyguthrie #folkmusic2025-01-2107 minJohn StrausbaughThe Victory Girls of Times SquareSend us a textDuring World War II, Times Square was crowded with soldiers and sailors, and girls and women who wanted to be around them. The authorities labeled these females "victory girls," "khaki-wackies," and even "patriotutes."Excerpted from my book "Victory City."#timessquare #worldwarii #venerealdisease #syphilis #penicillin #prostitution #eliotness #johnstrausbaugh #jedgarhoover #curfew2025-01-1004 minJohn StrausbaughThe Red Devil's Great EscapeSend us a textOberleutnant Franz Baron von Werra, a German Luftwaffe ace, came to New York City in 1941, and was treated like a visiting celebrity. He had been shot down over England, made a few nearly successful escape attempts there, and was being shipped to a POW camp in Canada when he jumped out the window of a moving train and crossed the border into the still neutral US. He would escape from the US as well... An excerpt from my book "Victory City."#victorycity #worldwarII #luftwaffe #vonwerra #canada #raf #johnstrausbaugh2024-12-2407 minJohn StrausbaughGirls Gone WildSend us a textWhen Frank Sinatra performed his first live show at the Times Square Paramount Theatre in December 1942, the packed house, estimated at 5,000 girls (in a space with an official capacity of 3,500), exploded in deafening shrieks and screams. Sinatra and his bandleader Benny Goodman were shocked and petrified. The girls drowned out the entire concert. Many wept, and several fainted. The cacophony and pandemonium were as great as at any Elvis or Beatles concert in later years... An excerpt from my book "Victory City."#franksinatra #bobbysox #worldwar2 #elvis #beatles2024-12-0505 minJohn StrausbaughRobert Downey Sr.Send us a textRobert Downey, Jr., delivered his first spoken line in a feature-length motion picture at the age of five. He played a puppy in a film called Pound, written and directed by his dad, whose other prodigiously weird films include the scathing satire Putney Swope and the psychedelic Western Greaser’s Palace… Excerpted from my book, The Village.#robertdowney #putneyswope #greaser’spalace #undergroundfilm #hollywood #johnstrausbaugh2024-11-2107 minJohn StrausbaughKing DonSend us a textAl Smith, King Kong, Donald Trump, and the Empire State Building#johnstrausbaugh #kingkong #donaldtrump #empirestatebuilding2024-11-1606 minJohn StrausbaughJimi's MentorSend us a textIn 1966, Jimi Hendrix – who was then still an obscure musician going as Jimmy James -- wandered into a club near Times Square called the African Room. On stage he saw a tall, muscular black man in a black leotard, boots with eight-inch heels, and a spider monkey on his shoulder, doing a voodoo-inspired dance in front of a rock band. Mike Quashie, from Trinidad, had once been famous as the Limbo King. He now helped Jimmy James become Jimi Hendrix, as well as inspiring Lou Reed, the New York Dolls, and David Bowie. Ex...2024-11-0409 min
John StrausbaughRonald Reagan Paves the WaySend us a textRonald Reagan was the first television celebrity to become President. That was quite remarkable in the 1980s, when no one knew what the 21st Century would bring. A handful of rehearsed poses, he was less the country's leader than its logo.#Reagan #Trump #history #presidency #election #WhiteHouse #celebrity #politics #JohnStrausbaugh2024-10-1709 minJohn StrausbaughElsa the OutrageousSend us a textBaroness Elsa von Freytag-Loringhoven was one of the oddest characters in Greenwich Village in the 1910s. Her bizarre outfits and outlandish behavior were legendary. Was she just a troubled eccentric, or a pioneering feminist and artist? An excerpt from my book, "The Village."#BaronessElsa #GreenwichVillage #MarcelDuchamp #WilliamCarlosWilliams #art #Dada #fashion #JohnStrausbaugh2024-09-2909 min
John StrausbaughNicholas Roerich: Searching for ShambhalaSend us a textIn the 1920s and 1930s, the Russian émigré Nicholas Roerich was one of the most famous painters in America. His work was shown around the country, and widely praised. The art was only part of Roerich’s appeal. His occult side drew not just fans, but disciples. They funded extraordinary missions in the East, searching for the mystical kingdom of Shambhala.#Roerich #art #occult #mysticism #Russia #Theosophy #JohnStrausbaugh #museum2024-09-1808 min
The ConversationAmerican Political Thought and Radicalism – Part 2Tune in to the exciting conclusion of Episode 1 of The Conversation! In this episode, John and Rachel dive deeper into David Strausbaugh’s thought-provoking American Political Thought and Radicalism course at Worthington Kilbourne High School. Hear firsthand how this unique class has shaped the values and civic engagement of a former student. This episode is a part of our Democracy Starts in the Classroom series, designed to keep you informed and engaged this voting season. David Strausbaugh has taught for over 30 years in Philadelphia and Columbus. At Worthington Kilbourne High School he has taught US Hist...2024-09-1114 min
John StrausbaughAnatomically IncorrectSend us a textIn the 20th century, nudists and publications about nudism were subject to all sorts of censorship and legal harassment. Nudist magazine publishers went to great lengths to avoid obscenity charges, which led, sadly, to some unintentionally hilarious results. #nudism #nudist #obscenity #censorship #nudistmagazine #history #pornography #naturelovers2024-08-3007 min
RiskgamingThe Orthogonal Bet: The Harsh Realities of the Soviet Space ProgramWelcome to The Orthogonal Bet, an ongoing mini-series that explores the unconventional ideas and delightful patterns that shape our world. Hosted by Samuel Arbesman.
In this episode, Samuel Arbesman speaks with John Strausbaugh, a former editor of New York Press and the author of numerous history books. John’s latest work is the compelling new book “The Wrong Stuff: How the Soviet Space Program Crashed and Burned.”
The book is an eye-opening delight, filled with stories about the Potemkin Village-like space program that the Soviets ran. Beneath the achievements that alarmed the United States, the Soviet space program was es...2024-08-2834 min
John StrausbaughI, LibertineSend us a textIn 1956, the pioneering radio host Jean Shepherd orchestrated one of the great literary hoaxes of all time, the saucy novel "I, Libertine."#hoax #JeanShepherd #libertine #GreenwichVillage #radio #TheodoreSturgeon #KellyFreas #MadMagazine #JohnCassavetes #AChristmasStory2024-08-2108 min
The ConversationAmerican Political Thought and Radicalism – Part 1Season 2 of The Conversation is here! This two-part episode is a part of our Democracy Starts in the Classroom series which will cover civic engagement topics to keep you informed and engaged this voting season. On this episode of The Conversation, John and Rachel chat with David Strausbaugh, a Social Studies teacher at Worthington Kilbourne High School. John and Rachel will learn about David’s American Political Thought & Radicalism class and hear from one of his former student’s, Bella Selph, to learn how the course opened her eyes to new ideas and perspectives. David...2024-08-1622 min
John StrausbaughLas Momias de GuanajuatoSend us a textGazing at the faces of Guanajuato's famous mummies can make you wonder what kind of expression you'll wear when you face death. #Mexico #mummies #Guanajuato #Mexicanwrestler #Santo #RayBradbury #OctavioPaz #death2024-08-1407 min
The Addiction Podcast-Point of No ReturnDarryl Strawberry Sharing My Spiritual Healing and RecoveryDarryl Strawberry is described as a baseball legend by many who have been dazzled by the dynamics of his game. His many accomplishments in the major leagues include four World Series titles, eight All-Star Game appearances, and a nomination to the National Baseball Hall of Fame in 2004. He has earned the legendary nicknames and phrases of one of the most feared home run hitters in the game of baseball: Straw’s Sweet Swing, Strawberry’s Field Forever, and The Legendary Straw Man! Though Darryl was extremely successful in his career, his personal life was plagued with addictions, abuse, divorces, canc...2024-08-0332 min
John StrausbaughThe Real AntifaSend us a textIn the 1920s and 30s, Benito Mussolini and his Fascists enjoyed broad popularity in America. Like certain political figures today, he was seen as a "strongman" who brought order to Italy and was a bulwark against the spread of international bolshevism. But one Italian anarchist in New York City was virulently anti-Fascist -- Carlo Tresca. He was a man, it was said, who "held tenaciously to his hatreds." When he died a violent death on a dark New York street, he had made so many enemies that it was anyone's guess who had...2024-07-2210 min
Inside TrackHour Two - John StrausbaughJohn Strausbaugh - American author, cultural commentator2024-07-2154 min
John StrausbaughClown Car in SpaceSend us a textOn the morning of October 12, 1964, a drab green bus pulled up near a launchpad at the Soviet spaceport called the Baikonur Cosmodrome in bleak and dreary Kazakhstan. The door opened and three small men in soft white aviator caps and what looked like wool leisure suits stepped down. They were dressed more for a cruise ship than a spaceship... An excerpt from "The Wrong Stuff."2024-07-1211 min
John StrausbaughYou're a Sap, Mr. JapSend us a textOn Sunday, December 7, 1941, news of the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor began to reach New Yorkers in the middle of the afternoon. In the Brill Building, America's pop songwriters went to war that very day. They reacted to Pearl Harbor with instant fury and patriotic zeal, churning out hundreds of war songs at a ferocious clip. An excerpt from "Victory City."2024-06-1606 min
John StrausbaughValentina Tereshkova, the "Cosmonette"Send us a textThe Soviets put the first woman, Valentina Tereshkova, into space 61 years ago, on June 16, 1963. They did it to beat the Americans at it. Having done that, it was another 20 years before the next female cosmonaut flew... An excerpt from my book, "The Wrong Stuff."https://www.hachettebookgroup.com/titles/john-strausbaugh/the-wrong-stuff/9781541703346/2024-06-0608 min
The Realignment483 | John Strausbaugh: The Wrong Stuff - How the Soviet Space Program Crashed and BurnedSubscribe to The Realignment to access our exclusive Q&A episodes and support the show: https://realignment.supercast.com/REALIGNMENT NEWSLETTER: https://therealignment.substack.com/PURCHASE BOOKS AT OUR BOOKSHOP: https://bookshop.org/shop/therealignmentEmail Us: realignmentpod@gmail.comFoundation for American Innovation: https://www.thefai.org/posts/lincoln-becomes-faiJohn Strausbaugh, author of The Wrong Stuff: How the Soviet Union Crashed and Burned, joins The Realignment. Marshall and John discuss the rise and fall of the USSR's space program, why the U.S. had the "Right Stuff" while...2024-06-0545 min
The Lawfare Podcast: Patreon EditionChatter: The Harrowing History of the Soviet Space Program with John StrausbaughIn the wake of World War II, the United States and the Soviet Union set off on the great space race, competing to see which super power could put the first human in space and eventually land them on the Moon. As historian John Strausbaugh writes, that race should have been over before it even started. Strausbaugh’s new book, The Wrong Stuff: How the Soviet Space Program Crashed and Burned, is a harrowing and frequently hilarious account of how political leaders and engineers slapped together a space program with little apparent concern for the lives of t...2024-06-041h 15
The Lawfare PodcastChatter: The Harrowing History of the Soviet Space Program with John StrausbaughIn the wake of World War II, the United States and the Soviet Union set off on the great space race, competing to see which super power could put the first human in space and eventually land them on the Moon. As historian John Strausbaugh writes, that race should have been over before it even started. Strausbaugh’s new book, The Wrong Stuff: How the Soviet Space Program Crashed and Burned, is a harrowing and frequently hilarious account of how political leaders and engineers slapped together a space program with little apparent concern for the lives of t...2024-06-041h 15
ChatterThe Harrowing History of the Soviet Space Program with John StrausbaughIn the wake of World War II, the United States and the Soviet Union set off on the great space race, competing to see which super power could put the first human in space and eventually land them on the Moon. As historian John Strausbaugh writes, that race should have been over before it even started. Strausbaugh’s new book, The Wrong Stuff: How the Soviet Space Program Crashed and Burned, is a harrowing and frequently hilarious account of how political leaders and engineers slapped together a space program with little apparent concern for the lives of t...2024-06-041h 15
John StrausbaughNikita Khrushchev, AKA Comrade PotatoheadSend us a textAn excerpt from my book The Wrong Stuff.https://www.hachettebookgroup.com/titles/john-strausbaugh/the-wrong-stuff/9781541703346/2024-05-2308 min
John StrausbaughDr. UranianSend us a textIn 1959, in the basement of a tenement on the Lower East Side of Manhattan, Richard and Dorothea Tyler founded an avant-garde artists’ collective and funeral society called the Uranian Phalanstery and First New York Gnostic Lyceum Temple. The Tylers were influential underground figures in postwar New York City culture. They connected people and created webs of creativity and spirituality that blended music, visual arts, publishing, tattooing, Eastern religion, Gnosticism, Judaism, and communalism. And more. And all at once.To learn more about the Tylers and other fascinating figures of Lower East Si...2024-05-1407 min
John StrausbaughHow Wall Street Banked on HitlerSend us a textThroughout World War II, Wall Street banks and giant American corporations traded with the Nazis and Japanese and played both sides in the war. They included Chase National Bank, Standard Oil, DuPont, and General Motors, among others. The impulse to prosecute them as traitors for their financial dealings with the Nazis and Japanese was countered by a simple, inescapable reality: the U.S. needed their backing as well.2024-04-2407 min
John StrausbaughLucky YuriSend us a textSixty-three years ago, on April 12 1961, Yuri Gagarin fell out of the sky. He was the first human to go to outer space. He almost didn't make it back alive. In their "space race" against the well-heeled Americans, the Soviets rushed their scientists, cut corners, and were very careless with their cosmonauts' lives. Gagarin was a lucky survivor. NOTE: I do not own this image.#SovietUnion #YuriGagarin #Gagarin #cosmonaut #spacerace #NASA #JohnStrausbaugh2024-04-1307 min
John StrausbaughThis is the World After the End of the WorldSend us a textZombie apocalypse. AI annihilating us. Killer asteroids. Godzilla's comeback. War, plague, famine, crime. Why are we so obsessed with apocalyptic and post-apocalyptic scenarios? Maybe we're unconsciously but very publicly acknowledging the fact that the apocalypse isn't coming, it already happened. The world ended in the 20th century. A century of atrocities, a century of savages. A hundred years of holocaust. This is the world after the end of the world. 2024-04-0110 min
John StrausbaughHitler Youth of Long IslandSend us a textIn the years leading up to World War 2, New York's pro-Hitler German American Bund had their own summer camp on Long Island, Camp Siegfried. NOTE: I do not own this image.2024-03-2206 min
John StrausbaughZoot Suit KillersSend us a textDuring World War 2, “zoot suit” was synonymous with “juvenile delinquent.” What the black leather jacket and the hoodie have been to later generations, the zoot suit was to the World War 2 years.2024-03-1607 min
John StrausbaughDr. Seuss at WarSend us a textThe coming of World War 2 politicized an illustrator who’d previously been known only for wacky advertisements and surrealist children’s books. His name was Theodor Geisel, but he's universally known as Dr. Seuss. NOTE: I do not own this image.2024-03-1305 min
John StrausbaughThe House of DSend us a textThe New York House of Detention for Women -- aka the House of D -- had a number of star visitors, including Angela Davis. NOTE: I do not own this image.2024-03-0406 min
John StrausbaughW. R. Burnett, The Cool ManSend us a textW. R. Burnett isn't quite as well known as other crime writers like Dashiell Hammett and Raymond Chandler, but the titles of several of his novels and films – Little Caesar, High Sierra, The Asphalt Jungle -- everybody knows.2024-02-1608 min
John StrausbaughGreenwich Village, Mecca for Misfits Part 3Send us a textGreenwich Village enjoyed its last great flowering as the bohemian capital of America from the years following World War 2 through the 1970s. It still drew pilgrims and exiles from around the world. Among them were a bounty of creative geniuses who made the neighborhood a whirring dynamo of culture. 2024-02-1110 min
John StrausbaughGreenwich Village, Mecca for Misfits Part 2Send us a textBy the 1910s the whole world seemed to know that Greenwich Village was the Left Bank of America. It was familiar enough that P.G. Wodehouse could poke fun at it in a Broadway musical. Its crooked streets and romantic garrets drew the likes of Edna St. Vincent Millay, Sinclair Lewis, Djuna Barnes, Hart Crane, Eugene O'Neill, E. E. Cummings, Buckminster Fuller, Edgar Varese. Even Kahlil Gibran, who wrote The Prophet there. 2024-02-1006 min
John StrausbaughGreenwich Village, Mecca for Misfits Part 1Send us a textGreenwich Village was a Mecca for misfits and refuge for outsiders for a very long time. Blacks, Italians and Irish, artists across the genres, anarchists and communists, gays and lesbians, intellectuals, eccentrics, visionaries and life's adventurers were all drawn there. An astonishing Who's Who of world culture made the Village at least a temporary home in the 20th century. Some came as refugees, but most were self-exiles who came because this tiny speck of real estate, a neighborhood they could stroll through in twenty minutes, was the one place in America where they...2024-02-0909 min
John StrausbaughRoger Miller, The Pagliaccio of PopSend us a textCountry singer-songwriter Roger Miller was best known for his do-wacka-do hits, but like other novelty stars, he had hidden depths.2024-01-2706 min
John StrausbaughLaura Ingalls: Fast, Famous and FascistSend us a textIn the 1930s, Laura Ingalls was a stunt and race pilot about as famous as Amelia Earhart. But she became best known for something else -- her championing of Adolf Hitler.2024-01-2408 min
John StrausbaughThe Samurai Who Saved the WorldSend us a textOn August 15, 1945, Emperor Hirohito went on Japanese radio, announcing the end of the war in the Pacific. An 86-year-old retired general, Shiba Goro, decided to commit seppuku, ritual suicide. That in itself isn’t especially noteworthy. Hundreds of Japanese officers at the time were deciding to follow the old samurai way of choosing honorable suicide over living in disgrace and defeat. But General Shiba wasn’t just following the old samurai ways. He actually was an old samurai, born and bred in a samurai household, possibly the last man in Japan about whom that...2024-01-2007 min
John StrausbaughDorothy Thompson: It Can Happen HereSend us a textIn August 1934, Dorothy Thompson was the first American journalist expelled from Nazi Germany, on Hitler’s direct order. She was on her way to being one of the most widely read, discussed, and argued about journalists of the era.2024-01-1805 min
John StrausbaughA Cosmonaut Comes to TownSend us a textGherman Titov was the second Soviet cosmonaut to go into space, but the first one to visit America. Things didn't quite go as planned.2024-01-1705 min
John StrausbaughThe Coney Island of the SoulSend us a textIt was said that Maxwell Bodenheim was "more disliked, derided, denounced, beaten up, and kicked down more flights of stairs than any poet of whom I have heard or read." And that was said by a friend. 2024-01-1706 min
John StrausbaughThe Mad Assassin's Mad AssassinSend us a textBefore dawn on April 26, 1865, a detachment of the 16th New York Volunteer Cavalry found John Wilkes Booth, Abraham Lincoln's assassin, holed up in a Virginia tobacco barn. They were under strict orders from the Secretary of War to take Booth alive. But one man who rode with the 16th answered to a higher authority: Sergeant Thomas “Boston” Corbett.2024-01-1705 min
John StrausbaughThe End-of-the-World FairSend us a textThe 1939 New York World's Fair, projecting a future of peace and prosperity, opened in a world that was tilting into war. By the time it closed in 1940 the Fair, like the world, was in shambles.2024-01-1709 min
John StrausbaughEinstein's Cottage, Where the Atom Bomb Was BornSend us a textOn a sunny afternoon in 1939, the physicists Leo Szilard and Eugene Wigner visited Albert Einstein at his beach cottage on Long Island. They wanted him to write to President Franklin Roosevelt about the need to develop the atom bomb before the Nazis could.2024-01-1711 min
John StrausbaughThey Called Her Mrs. SatanSend us a textVictoria Woodhull, the first female candidate for president of the United States, sat out the election in a jail cell. She achieved several firsts for women in America, yet her impact on the women's movement was so controversial, and in the end so negligible, that she's a minor figure in feminist history, but a fascinating one. 2024-01-1720 min
Behind The Human with Marc ChampagneFinding Meaning and Adventure in Midlife Transitions w/ Olympic Gold Medalist Joe JacobiJoe Jacobi is an Olympic Gold Medalist, Performance Coach, and author who guides high-performance leaders to ignite their second wind to confront challenging midlife transitions with meaning and adventure. He practices and refines the core principles and strategies of the midlife high-performance plan he designs for clients in his own life and pursuits at his Pyrenees mountains home beside the 1992 Olympic Canoeing venue in La Seu d’Urgell in the Spanish state of Catalunya - the same canoeing venue where he and his canoeing partner, Scott Strausbaugh, won America’s first-ever Olympic Gold Medal in the sport of Whitewater Canoe...2023-07-161h 15
The Addiction Podcast-Point of No ReturnDarryl Strawberry My Spiritual Healing and RecoveryDarryl Strawberry is described as a baseball legend by many who have been dazzled by the dynamics of his game. His many accomplishments in the major leagues include four World Series titles, eight All-Star Game appearances, and a nomination to the National Baseball Hall of Fame in 2004. He has earned the legendary nicknames and phrases of one of the most feared home run hitters in the game of baseball: Straw’s Sweet Swing, Strawberry’s Field Forever, and The Legendary Straw Man! Though Darryl was extremely successful in his career, his personal life was plagued with addictions, abus...2023-03-1433 min
Thriving Beyond Belief with Cheryl ScruggsDaryl StrawberryToday on Thriving Beyond Belief is Daryl Strawberry, an American former professional baseball right fielder and author who played 17 seasons in Major League Baseball (MLB). Throughout his career, Strawberry was one of the most feared sluggers in the sport, known for his prodigious home runs and his intimidating presence in the batter's box with his 6 ft 6 in (1.98 m) frame and his long, looping swing that elicited comparisons to Ted Williams'. During his career, he helped lead the New York Mets to a World Series championship in 1986 and the New York Yankees to three World Series championships in 1996, 1998...2021-02-1041 min
Linch With A LeaderEpisode 97: Darryl Strawberry In Episode 97 of the Linch with a Leader Podcast, Mike sits down with eight time MLB All-Star and four time World Series Champion Darryl Strawberry to talk about his new book Turn Your Season Around. Darryl not only shares the stories of his time in the MLB with the Mets, Dodgers, Giants & Yankees but also his story of the pains he experienced off the field.Darryl Strawberry is described as a baseball legend by many who have been dazzled by the dynamics of his game. His many accomplishments in the major leagues include four World Series titles...2021-01-0458 min
FAQ NYCEpisode 17: Nazis and Street Fights in Victory CityWhite supremacists holding rallies with fascists and anti-fascists brawling outside, and war looming. Maybe that sounds like NYC in 2018, but we're talking NYC in WWII and the years around it along with special guests John Strausbaugh, author of "Victory City: A history of New York and New Yorkers during World War II," and Ron Howell, author of "Boss of Black Brooklyn: The life and times of Bertram L. Baker."2018-12-1347 min
FAQ NYCEpisode 17: Nazis and Street Fights in Victory CityWhite supremacists holding rallies with fascists and anti-fascists brawling outside, and war looming. Maybe that sounds like NYC in 2018, but we're talking NYC in WWII and the years around it along with special guests John Strausbaugh, author of "Victory City: A history of New York and New Yorkers during World War II," and Ron Howell, author of "Boss of Black Brooklyn: The life and times of Bertram L. Baker."2018-12-1347 min
Let Free Audiobook Transport You to New WorldsVictory City: A History of New York and New Yorkers during World War II Audiobook by John StrausbaughListen to this audiobook in full for free onhttps://hotaudiobook.com/freeID: 360883
Title: Victory City: A History of New York and New Yorkers during World War II
Author: John Strausbaugh
Narrator: Robert Petkoff
Format: Unabridged
Length: 19:30:00
Language: English
Release date: 12-04-18
Publisher: Hachette Book Group USA
Genres: History, World, North America
Summary:
From John Strausbaugh, author of City of Sedition and The Village, comes the definitive history of Gotham during the World War II era.
New York City during World War II wasn't just a place of servicemen, politicians, heroes, G.I. Joes and Rosie the Riveters, but also...2018-12-047h 30
All the Books!E187: #187: Best Of December 2018 (Plus Winter and Christmas Kids Books)This week, Jenn and María Cristina discuss Revolution Sunday, Here Comes Jack Frost, Once Upon a River, A Loud Winter’s Nap, and more great books.
This episode was sponsored by Book Riot Insiders, Riddance; or, The Sybil Joines Vocational School for Ghost Speakers & Hearing-Mouth Children by Shelley Jackson, and Third Love.
BOOKS DISCUSSED ON THE SHOW:
The Snowy Day by Ezra Jack Keats (video read aloud)
Here Comes Jack Frost by Kazuno Kohara
Revolution Sunday by Wendy Guerra, translated by Achy Obejas
Goodbye Autumn, Hello Winter by Kenard Pak
Hex Vet: Witches in Training by Sam Davies (Dec 18)
Little...2018-12-0441 min
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Title: Victory City: A History of New York and New Yorkers during World War II
Author: John Strausbaugh
Narrator: Robert Petkoff
Format: Unabridged Audiobook
Length: 19 hours 30 minutes
Release date: December 4, 2018
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Publisher's Summary:
From John Strausbaugh, author of City of Sedition and The Village, comes the definitive history of Gotham during the World War II era. New York City during World War II wasn't just a place of servicemen, politicians, heroes, G.I. Joes and Rosie the Riveters, but also of quislings and...2018-12-047h 30
Get Best Full Audiobooks in History, WorldVictory City: A History of New York and New Yorkers during World War II by John StrausbaughPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/360883 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Victory City: A History of New York and New Yorkers during World War II Author: John Strausbaugh Narrator: Robert Petkoff Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 19 hours 30 minutes Release date: December 4, 2018 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 1 of Total 1 Genres: World Publisher's Summary: From John Strausbaugh, author of City of Sedition and The Village, comes the definitive history of Gotham during the World War II era. New York City during World War II wasn't just a place of servicemen, politicians, heroes, G.I. Joes and Rosie the Riveters, but also of quislings...2018-12-0403 minDiscover the Best Audio Stories in History, The AmericasVictory City: A History of New York and New Yorkers during World War II by John StrausbaughPlease visithttps://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/360883to listen full audiobooks.
Title: Victory City: A History of New York and New Yorkers during World War II
Author: John Strausbaugh
Narrator: Robert Petkoff
Format: Unabridged Audiobook
Length: 19 hours 30 minutes
Release date: December 4, 2018
Ratings: Ratings of Book: 1 of Total 1
Genres: The Americas
Publisher's Summary:
From John Strausbaugh, author of City of Sedition and The Village, comes the definitive history of Gotham during the World War II era. New York City during World War II wasn't just a place of servicemen, politicians, heroes, G.I. Joes and Rosie the Riveters, but also of quislings...2018-12-047h 30
Discover the Best Audio Stories in History, The AmericasVictory City: A History of New York and New Yorkers during World War II by John StrausbaughPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/360883 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Victory City: A History of New York and New Yorkers during World War II Author: John Strausbaugh Narrator: Robert Petkoff Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 19 hours 30 minutes Release date: December 4, 2018 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 1 of Total 1 Genres: The Americas Publisher's Summary: From John Strausbaugh, author of City of Sedition and The Village, comes the definitive history of Gotham during the World War II era. New York City during World War II wasn't just a place of servicemen, politicians, heroes, G.I. Joes and Rosie the Riveters, but also of...2018-12-0403 min
The World in Time / Lapham’s QuarterlyEpisode 11: John StrausbaughThe northernmost Civil War battle was fought in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, and though Confederate soldiers never came within three hundred miles of Manhattan, New York City was far from untouched by the conflict—the ships dispatched by President Lincoln to quell the rebellion’s beginning at Fort Sumter, for example, sailed from New York harbor. Rebel sympathizers, abolitionists, immigrants, and freed slaves all called the city home and the conflict colored every aspect of New York life.
Lewis H. Lapham talks with John Strausbaugh, author of City of Sedition: The History of New York City During the Civil War.
Thanks to our...2017-08-1638 min
Talk CocktailWhat We Can Learn From Looking At Economic Interests That Crossed the Battle Lines During the Last Civil WarIt’s always so interesting all the assumptions we make about history. They tell us something about the assumptions we might be making about our divide today.
When we think about the Civil War era, for example, we think in clear lines...the North vs. the South. Yet in families, in communities and in the states themselves, many were conflicted. Then as now, there were personal and economic interests that crossed over both sides.
Nowhere was this more the case than in the city of New York. While seemingly a part of the North, its ec...2016-11-1518 min
Arts & SeizuresEpisode 195: City of SeditionOn the march to our 200th show!! This week is gonna be equal parts Arts & Seizures when we are joined by John Strausbaugh who will talk about his new book City of Sedition: The History of New York City during the Civil War - get a dose of local history, plus Peter Zaremba has brought us booze all the way from China!!!! Another guaranteed classic. As ever, 2 PM, Brooklyn pizza time.
2016-10-0231 min
Download Best Full-Length Audiobooks in History, WorldCity of Sedition: The History of New York City during the Civil War by John StrausbaughPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/270205 to listen full audiobooks. Title: City of Sedition: The History of New York City during the Civil War Author: John Strausbaugh Narrator: Mark Boyett Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 16 hours 22 minutes Release date: August 2, 2016 Genres: World Publisher's Summary: In a single definitive narrative, City of Sedition tells the spellbinding story of the huge-and hugely conflicted-role New York City played in the Civil War. No city was more of a help to Abraham Lincoln and the Union war effort, or more of a hindrance. No city raised more men, money, and materiel for the war...2016-08-0203 min
Download Best Full-Length Audiobooks in History, WorldCity of Sedition: The History of New York City during the Civil War by John StrausbaughPlease visithttps://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/270205to listen full audiobooks.
Title: City of Sedition: The History of New York City during the Civil War
Author: John Strausbaugh
Narrator: Mark Boyett
Format: Unabridged Audiobook
Length: 16 hours 22 minutes
Release date: August 2, 2016
Genres: World
Publisher's Summary:
In a single definitive narrative, City of Sedition tells the spellbinding story of the huge-and hugely conflicted-role New York City played in the Civil War. No city was more of a help to Abraham Lincoln and the Union war effort, or more of a hindrance. No city raised more men, money, and materiel for the war, and...2016-08-024h 22
Listen to Best Full Audiobooks in History, The AmericasCity of Sedition: The History of New York City during the Civil War by John StrausbaughPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/270205 to listen full audiobooks. Title: City of Sedition: The History of New York City during the Civil War Author: John Strausbaugh Narrator: Mark Boyett Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 16 hours 22 minutes Release date: August 2, 2016 Genres: The Americas Publisher's Summary: In a single definitive narrative, City of Sedition tells the spellbinding story of the huge-and hugely conflicted-role New York City played in the Civil War. No city was more of a help to Abraham Lincoln and the Union war effort, or more of a hindrance. No city raised more men, money, and materiel for the...2016-08-0203 minListen to Best Full Audiobooks in History, The AmericasCity of Sedition: The History of New York City during the Civil War by John StrausbaughPlease visithttps://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/270205to listen full audiobooks.
Title: City of Sedition: The History of New York City during the Civil War
Author: John Strausbaugh
Narrator: Mark Boyett
Format: Unabridged Audiobook
Length: 16 hours 22 minutes
Release date: August 2, 2016
Genres: The Americas
Publisher's Summary:
In a single definitive narrative, City of Sedition tells the spellbinding story of the huge-and hugely conflicted-role New York City played in the Civil War. No city was more of a help to Abraham Lincoln and the Union war effort, or more of a hindrance. No city raised more men, money, and materiel for the war...2016-08-024h 22
Futility ClosetAn African From Baltimore
In the 1920s Bata Kindai Amgoza ibn LoBagola toured the United States and Europe to share the culture of his African homeland with fascinated audiences. The reality was actually much more mundane: His name was Joseph Lee and he was from Baltimore. In this week's episode of the Futility Closet podcast we'll tell the curious story of this self-described "savage" and trace the unraveling of his imaginative career.
We'll also dump a bucket of sarcasm on Duluth, Minnesota, and puzzle over why an acclaimed actor loses a role.
Please consider becoming a patron...2016-01-1131 min
Arts & SeizuresEpisode 143: Vanishing New YorkThis week on Arts & Seizures, hosts Mike Edison and Judy McGuire are joined by John Strausbaugh and in the second half of the show, Jeremiah Moss. John is the author of “The Village: 400 Years of Beats and Bohemians, Radicals and Rogues, a History of Greenwich Village” and host of the New York Times video podcast series “Weekend Explorer.” Talking to Mike and Judy about his research on one of NYC’s most infamous neighborhoods, he and Mike reminisce about the yesteryear of the big apple and discuss what Taylor Swift has brought to the city as well. Jeremiah Moss joins in t...2014-11-1630 min
CUNY TV's City TalkAuthor, John StrausbaughJohn Strausbaugh's latest book, "The Village: 400 Years of Beats and Bohemians, Radicals and Rogues, a History of Greenwich Village," reminds us of the conglomeration of people who inhabited this particular piece of Manhattan, from the 1640's to today.2013-07-1000 min
CUNY TV's City TalkAuthor, John StrausbaughJohn Strausbaugh's latest book, "The Village: 400 Years of Beats and Bohemians, Radicals and Rogues, a History of Greenwich Village," reminds us of the conglomeration of people who inhabited this particular piece of Manhattan, from the 1640's to today.2013-07-1027 min
Word Patriots Archives - WebTalkRadio.netWord Patriots – Darryl Strawberry’s “Finding My Way”From the mid-1980s to the early 1990s, Darryl Strawberry was one of the most feted and prolific sluggers in baseball. Fans dubbed him the Black Ted Williams. An eight-time All-Star, a four-time World Series Champion, and a National League Rookie of the Year, he played for the Mets, Dodgers, Giants, and Yankees. His dazzling achievements on the field, however, were often overshadowed by his epic struggles off it. Darryl Strawberry became the first National League player voted to the All-Star Game in each of his first four full seasons, and, during his baseball career, he hit more than...2012-03-1235 min