“Heroes with Humble Beginnings: Underdogs on the Diamond, At the Movies, In the White House,” by FM Kail
FM Kail
6 episodes
3 months ago
As the title telegraphs, “Heroes with Humble Beginnings” is a book about the early, challenging years of some of the greatest ballplayers, movie actors and presidents of all time, about boys whose parents were socially as well as economically deprived. It also explains why we love underdogs, in what way these “humble beginnings” matter and how the lives of these men are intertwined with our belief in the American Dream.
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As the title telegraphs, “Heroes with Humble Beginnings” is a book about the early, challenging years of some of the greatest ballplayers, movie actors and presidents of all time, about boys whose parents were socially as well as economically deprived. It also explains why we love underdogs, in what way these “humble beginnings” matter and how the lives of these men are intertwined with our belief in the American Dream.
Ep 2: Great Presidents: Dwight Eisenhower’s Early Years
“Heroes with Humble Beginnings: Underdogs on the Diamond, At the Movies, In the White House,” by FM Kail
29 minutes 48 seconds
3 years ago
Ep 2: Great Presidents: Dwight Eisenhower’s Early Years
In Podcast 2, we meet young David Dwight Eisenhower, who was later to become one of America’s most famous and well-respected presidents. We learn how the great success of Dwight Eisenhower’s grandfather psychologically doomed the future president’s father, after he proved a failure in business. We also learn how Eisenhower’s mother, a truly extraordinary figure in the lives of the six Eisenhower boys, compensated for their father’s shortcomings, both as a provider and as a parent. The podcast describes three pivotal events during Eisenhower’s childhood that years later still were sources of trauma and regret. And it gives us a picture of this Kansas boy at home and in school, at work and at play. It ends looking at Dwight David’s circuitous path to West Point, blasting the supposition that his path to the military academy was foreordained.
”Heroes with Humble Beginnings” also covers the traumatic early years of Lyndon Johnson, Bill Clinton, Ronald Reagan, Andrew Jackson, Abraham Lincoln and Barack Obama.
“Heroes with Humble Beginnings: Underdogs on the Diamond, At the Movies, In the White House,” by FM Kail
As the title telegraphs, “Heroes with Humble Beginnings” is a book about the early, challenging years of some of the greatest ballplayers, movie actors and presidents of all time, about boys whose parents were socially as well as economically deprived. It also explains why we love underdogs, in what way these “humble beginnings” matter and how the lives of these men are intertwined with our belief in the American Dream.
