America First with H.W. Brands

Here's Where It Gets Interesting

Sharon McMahon

Government, History, Storytelling, Education

4.9 • 15.1K Ratings

🗓️ 30 December 2024

⏱️ 41 minutes

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What role should the US play in international conflicts? Pulitzer prize finalist and historian H.W. Brands joins Sharon McMahon to discuss his latest book, “America First.” They dig into the America First movement inside the United States during the 1930s and early 40s. As World War II was raging, President Franklin Roosevelt was looking to gin up support for the US to help its allies fight the war. But celebrity aviator Charles Lindbergh and the America First Committee were standing in his way. Brands explains why Lindbergh’s anti-intervention message was so appealing to Americans at the time, and how that message compares to the America First movement that is playing out today. Credits: Host and Executive Producer: Sharon McMahon Supervising Producer: Melanie Buck Parks Audio Producer: Craig Thompson To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:49.5	Hello friends. Welcome. Delighted you can join me today. My guest is H.W. Brands. And he is a Pulitzer,
0:57.3	finalist, historian. And I have a really interesting discussion for you about Charles Lindberg
1:03.9	and FDR. His book is called America First, Roosevelt versus Lindberg, in the shadow of war.
1:12.4	And you can see so many of the arguments that people were having in the 1930s.
1:17.4	We are still having them today.
1:19.8	History is alive.
1:21.2	So let's dive in.
1:23.5	I'm Sharon McMahon.
1:25.3	And here's where it gets interesting.
1:28.4	I am really excited to be chatting with H.W. Brands. Thank you for being here.
1:34.1	My pleasure.
1:34.9	You've written a number of books, sir. This is not your first rodeo. I'm curious about how you arrived at the topic of America first. What about this was especially salient in your
1:47.3	mind? What about this was like, this is a project I need to work on and I need to work on it now?
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