Hitler’s Olympics Part 2: Pangloss, Polonius, Prufrock
Revisionist History
Pushkin Industries
4.8 • 61.5K Ratings
🗓️ 4 July 2024
⏱️ 38 minutes
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Summary
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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