Hitler’s Olympics, Part 2: Pangloss, Polonius, Prufrock
Podcast: Revisionist HistoryPublished On: Thu Jul 04 2024
Description: Charles Sherrill was everything a gentleman of his generation was supposed to be: rich, handsome, charming, Ivy-Leagued. He was impossibly well connected and extravagantly mustachioed. He was also the person who, as much as anything, decided whether American athletes would participate in the 1936 Olympics. Faced with one of the great moral dilemmas of the day, America needed the wisdom of Solomon. Instead, it got the wisdom of Sherrill. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
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