Cement City

By: Audacy | Cement City Productions
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  • Two journalists stumble into a dying town with a Smog Museum and a mayor named Piglet… and not a whole lot else. They have one burning question: What’s it like to live here, in a town left for dead? They buy a house and stay – for three years. They get caught up in an election cycle and a web of scandals. It’s democracy in action on the smallest scale. It’s Our Town for our time. And it’s all real. Cement City is an Audacy original in partnership with Cement City Productions. For more stories on the power of American resilience, check out Seasons 1 and 2 of Hope, Through History, available in this feed. Hope, Through History is an Audacy original in association with Jon Meacham and The HISTORY® Channel.
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  • Trailer: Hope, Through History

    Trailer: Hope, Through History
    Apr 9 2020
    Welcome to Hope, Through History with Jon Meacham. This limited series explores some of the most historic and trying times in American History, and how this nation dealt with these moments, the impact of these moments and how we came through these moments a unified nation. Season One takes a look at critical moments around the 1918 Flu Pandemic, the Great Depression, World War II, the polio epidemic and the Cuban Missile Crisis. To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices
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    3 mins
  • Hope, Through History: Episode 1 | FDR and The Great Depression

    Hope, Through History: Episode 1 | FDR and The Great Depression
    Apr 21 2020
    Following a decade of roaring prosperity in America, something invincible was proving vulnerable. The Great Depression was ravaging the economy and destroying lives, creating a dire need for bold, honest leadership. With the help of Pulitzer Prize-winners Doris Kearns Goodwin and David M. Kennedy, along with Allida Black, the Director of The Eleanor Roosevelt Papers, Jon Meacham delivers a vivid and intimate look at a President who countered depression with action, and who conquered fear with hope. To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices
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    40 mins
  • Hope, Through History: Episode 2 | Winston Churchill and World War II

    Hope, Through History: Episode 2 | Winston Churchill and World War II
    Apr 28 2020
    In May of 1940, Great Britain was in the crosshairs of Adolf Hitler and the Nazi war machine. As nations on mainland Europe fell prey to fascism, Winston Churchill seized the moment in dramatic fashion, ultimately winning a permanent place in the pantheon of heroic leaders who have single-handedly shifted the course of history. Churchill believed that “the only safe way” forward “was to convince Hitler that he couldn’t beat us.” And the only safe way to do that was to fight on. Accompanied by award-winning authors Erik Larson, Evan Thomas and Andrew Roberts, Jon Meacham revives one of the most consequential days of World War II, and creates a portrait of a man who used courage, candor and cooperation to protect the future of democracy. To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices
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    35 mins

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Hope is what we needed and is Hope that remains!

He brings a inspirational message and demonstrates there is imperfect people who can rise above them to lead us to a better life and keep us moving forward together always. We must restore our collective resolve and resilience by remembering the past. We have been in crisis before and can again restore HOPE and win the day whatever comes.

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Fantasy

Historians selling hope? Historiography is in the business of selling a product. Pessimism doesn’t sell well. So we get a gloss, either by design or their myth training, that America is exceptional.

In fact, it is exceptional in its violence, racism and intolerance of others. The legacy of conquest and regeneration through violence.

The Trump era has exploded the myths and exposed the rot.

Hope through history? Ha.

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