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Stuff You Should Know

Selects: Frances Perkins: Influential and Unknown

Stuff You Should Know

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Society & Culture

4.678.5K Ratings

🗓️ 21 December 2024

⏱️ 52 minutes

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Summary

Frances Perkins was an incredibly influential American yet is virtually unknown. What did she do? A lot! For instance, Social Security was her brainchild. And that's just the tip of the old iceberg. Explore her legacy with Josh and Chuck in this classic episode.

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0:00.0

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start listening. Terms apply. It's hard to read the news these days without asking yourself,

0:38.5

how did we get here? Fiasco is a history podcast for the co-creators of Slow Burn. In our first season,

0:44.9

Bush v. Gore, we examined an unmistakable turning point in American politics, the 2000 election,

0:50.8

which resulted in a high-stakes stalemate, ended with one of the most controversial

0:54.6

rulings in Supreme Court history. So if you're trying to make sense at the present moment,

0:59.0

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1:05.3

podcasts. Hello, friends, it's Josh, and for this week's select, I've chosen our September

1:10.6

2020 episode on Francis Perkins.

1:13.8

If you haven't heard of her, that's okay. She's one of the most unsung Americans ever and was even left out of the history books for a while, all because she was a woman.

1:23.1

Check out this episode where Francis Perkins gets her due.

1:30.2

Welcome to Stuff You Should Know, a production of IHeart Radio.

1:39.6

Hey, and welcome to the podcast. I'm Josh Clark, and there's Charles W. Chuck Bryant,

1:44.9

and this is Stuff You Should Know, the Amazing Unsong Woman Edition, Volume 2 at least.

1:52.1

No, more than 2.

1:53.6

What number would you say then?

1:55.5

I don't know, but I tell you what, if you want to take a vote on maybe one of the most undersung while at the same time being most influential Americans to ever live.

2:07.3

Neil Diamond.

2:08.3

He was very sung.

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