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In 1945, Margaret Thatcher watches her hero go down in flames.
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In 1943, James Baldwin buries is father and meets his hero.
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Bibliography:
Native Son by Richard Wright
Notes of a Native Son by James Baldwin
Talking at the Gates a Life of James Baldwin by James Campbell
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Did Lyndon Johnson really care about civil rights or was he motivated by party unity and cold political calculation?
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Bibliography: The Years of Lyndon Johnson by Robert Caro
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In 1926 Hannah Arendt says goodbye to the most exciting philosopher in Germany.
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In 1925 Ayn Rand plots her escape from Leningrad while Stalin and Trotsky plot against each other.
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In 1919, the 20-year-old Vladimir Nabokov has fled from revolutionary Petrograd and decamped to the Crimea where he writes poetry, catalogues butterflies, plays chess and waits for Lenin's Red Army to arrive.
Bibliography:
Speak, Memory by Vladimir Nabokov
Collected Poems by Vladimir Nabokov
Vladimir Nabokov: The Russian Years by Brian Boyd
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In 1923, there is no such thing as George Orwell, but a policeman called Eric Blair is collecting stories.
Music:
Paws by Timbah
Bibliography:
Shooting an Elephant by Geroge Orwell
Burmese Days by Geroge Orwell
1984 by Geroge Orwell
Orwell: The New Life by DJ Taylor
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In 1874 the Austrian economy was on its keens and a young Sigmund Freud met Franz Brentano, "an ideal human being".
Written and read by Nicholas Barrett
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Bibliography:
Listen to Jumping Off Points here https://jumpingoffpoints.buzzsprout.com/
Watch Timbah on Toast here https://www.youtube.com/@TimbahOnToast
Thank you to Barnaby Slater
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In 1864 Nietzsche went to Bonn, where he tried and failed to study theology.
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Music: Friends From the Afterlife by Heston Mimms.
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