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Eternal Youth
'To understand a man, we must look at the world when they were 20'
To understand a person you have to know what was happening in the world when they were twenty.
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Frantz Fanon wants to dance
19:59|In 1925, Frantz Fanon regrets joining the fight against facism. Music by Timbah.
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Margaret Thatcher tastes defeat
20:58|In 1945, Margaret Thatcher watches her hero go down in flames.Music by Timbah
James Baldwin buries his father
25:24|In 1943, James Baldwin buries is father and meets his hero.Music by Timbah Bibliography:Native Son by Richard WrightNotes of a Native Son by James BaldwinTalking at the Gates a Life of James Baldwin by James CampbellLyndon Johnson and the janitor
22:00|Did Lyndon Johnson really care about civil rights or was he motivated by party unity and cold political calculation?Music by TimbahBibliography: The Years of Lyndon Johnson by Robert CaroHannah Arendt and the little magician
22:03|In 1926 Hannah Arendt says goodbye to the most exciting philosopher in Germany.Music by Timbah.Ayn Rand and the supercommunist
22:58|In 1925 Ayn Rand plots her escape from Leningrad while Stalin and Trotsky plot against each other. Music by TimbahVladimir Nabokov and the revolution
22:58|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 NabokovCollected Poems by Vladimir NabokovVladimir Nabokov: The Russian Years by Brian Boyd