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Season 1 Trailer: Watergate

Season 1 Trailer: Watergate

FromSlow Burn


Season 1 Trailer: Watergate

FromSlow Burn

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Length:
3 minutes
Released:
Nov 17, 2017
Format:
Podcast episode

Description

It took two years for the Watergate scandal to unfold—for a break-in at the Democratic Party's headquarters to go from a weird little caper to a constitutional crisis that brought down a president. What was it like to experience those two years in real time?Hosted by Leon Neyfakh. An eight-episode podcast series made possible by Slate Plus members. Coming Nov. 28.Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Released:
Nov 17, 2017
Format:
Podcast episode

Titles in the series (100)

In the late 1980s and early 1990s, a white supremacist became an American political phenomenon. David Duke’s rise to power and prominence—his election to the Louisiana legislature, and then his campaigns for the U.S. Senate and the governorship—was an existential crisis for the state and the nation. The fourth season of Slate’s Slow Burn will explore how a Nazi sympathizer and former Klansman fashioned himself into a mainstream figure, and why some voters came to embrace his message. It will also examine how activists, journalists, and ordinary citizens confronted Duke’s candidacy, and what it took to stop him.