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Episode #137: Brendan Koerner

Brendan Koerner (“The Skies Belong To Us”, Wired contributing editor) joins the show. America experienced a startling rise in airplane hijackings as people in the country tried to come to grips with the social and political tension of the time.

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Episode #94: Jonathan Kirshner

Jonathan Kirshner (“Hollywood’s Last Golden Age: Politics, Society, and the Seventies Film in America”) joins the show. We discuss 70’s films, musical influences, Richard Nixon’s impact on the era, Polanski’s Chinatown, and how Network might have been conservative with its outlook.

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