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Whistlestop: Presidential History and Trivia Slate Podcasts
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John Dickerson of Slate’s Political Gabfest revisits a moment from the American carnival of politics. Hear about the grand speeches, emergency strategies, baby kissing, and backstabbing that make each presidential cycle so fascinating.
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The Presidency as a Consumer Experience (Part 2)
This episode of Whistlestop travels to October 19, 2016 as Florida Republican Senator Marco Rubio, the defeated GOP aspirant for the presidency, is asking his party not to play by the modern rules of politics.
Whistlestop is Slate’s podcast about presidential history. Hosted by Political Gabfest host John Dickerson, each installment will revisit memorable moments from America's presidential carnival.
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Email: whistlestop@slate.com.
Podcast production by Jocelyn Frank.
Research by Brian Rosenwald and Elizabeth Hinson.
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The Presidency as a Consumer Experience (Part 1)
This episode of Whistlestop travels to October 12, 2012 when Democratic candidate Barack Obama was declared the loser at the first Presidential debate against Mitt Romney and Twitter won.
Whistlestop is Slate’s podcast about presidential history. Hosted by Political Gabfest host John Dickerson, each installment will revisit memorable moments from America's presidential carnival.
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Listen longer with Slate Plus! Members get bonus segments, ad-free versions, exclusive podcasts and more. Start your two-week free trial at slate.com/podcastplus.
Email: whistlestop@slate.com.
Podcast production by Jocelyn Frank.
Research by Brian Rosenwald and Elizabeth Hinson.
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Avoiding A Great Re-Recession
This episode of Whistlestop travels to March 12, 2008 as President George W. Bush goes over the text of his speech to address the financial crisis in the housing market and Treasury Secretary Paulson makes a warning that becomes an unfortunately accurate prediction.
Whistlestop is Slate’s podcast about presidential history. Hosted by Political Gabfest host John Dickerson, each installment will revisit memorable moments from America's presidential carnival.
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Listen longer with Slate Plus! Members get bonus segments, ad-free versions, exclusive podcasts and more. Start your two-week free trial at slate.com/podcastplus.
Email: whistlestop@slate.com.
Podcast production by Jocelyn Frank. Research by Brian Rosenwald and Elizabeth Hinson.
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Introducing Charged: A True Punishment Story
For two and a half years, Emily Bazelon has been following people through a special court in New York designed to be a speedy machine for the harsh punishment of illegal gun possession. Along the way, a strange thing happened — the politics outside the courtroom started to change when a new generation of activists and insiders began challenging the old system the gun court was part of. Season 1 of Slate Presents brought you the story of Ruby Ridge, and Season 2 brings you a fight to transform one big-city justice system.
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The Making of the American Presidency (Part 4)
This episode of Whistlestop travels to December 23, 1783 when the commander in chief of the Continental Army sat before the president of the Confederation Congress and prepared to step away from the job.
Whistlestop is Slate’s podcast about presidential history. Hosted by Political Gabfest host John Dickerson, each installment will revisit memorable moments from America's presidential carnival.
Love Slate podcasts?
Listen longer with Slate Plus! Members get bonus segments, ad-free versions, exclusive podcasts and more. Start your two-week free trial at slate.com/podcastplus.
Email: whistlestop@slate.com.
Podcast production by Jocelyn Frank. Research by Brian Rosenwald and Elizabeth Hinson.
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The Making of the American Presidency (Part 3)
This episode of Whistlestop travels to March 4, 2019 when Senator Rand Paul quoted from Montesquieu on Twitter: “When the legislative and executive powers are united in the same person or in the same body of magistrates, there can be no liberty.” A statement that helped guide the founders towards a valuable separation of power.
Whistlestop is Slate's podcast about presidential history. Hosted by Political Gabfest host John Dickerson, each installment will revisit memorable moments from America's presidential carnival.
Love Slate podcasts?
Listen longer with Slate Plus! Members get bonus segments, ad-free versions, exclusive podcasts and more. Start your two-week free trial at slate.com/podcastplus.
Email: whistlestop@slate.com.
Podcast production by Jocelyn Frank. Research by Brian Rosenwald and Elizabeth Hinson.
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Kundenrezensionen
Great!
It's really fascinating, how John Dickerson can turn not-so-thrilling stories or simply very short moments of presidential history into 30 minutes of entertainment. In this Podcast, you can hear really informative stories as well as really exciting ones. Also, John puts the sometimes quite short moments (e.g. As the "Dean Scream") nicely into context.
Besides, every episode is built up properly and accentuated with John Dickerson's enthusiasm (as you may know it from his cocktail chatters at the Gabfest) and his pleasant humor. I really love listening to Whistlestop and can only recommend it.
Fun and full of deep-dive citations
John Dickerson, as his fans from Slate's Political Gabfest know, is a natural researcher. His life-long exposure to people who have made American politics, arts, and industry has no doubt prepared him well to the work of putting together a juicy, gratifying historical podcast about presidential ambitions in the US.
He can pull the focus with accuracy from broad, overly shared semi-mischaracterizations (ha: "bromides"!) to the crucial, singular moments where somebody shows that they have understood that the facts are different now, flagging the way with six or seven bang-on quotes from the vast stores of citable material that he accesses for us with ease and joy. It can get deliciously obscure: the Mario Cuomo plane sources?!!
Sometimes the Road to Damascus moment happens directly on the protagonist's path (cf Ross Perot). Sometimes it's more about the bravado and fakery needed to elaborately manufacture such a moment (Reagan-Bush?).
But sometimes John Dickerson tells you about his own moment of revelation, and it might have been triggered by what his neighbor on the bus said, such as when that neighbor wss David Foster Wallace on the Straight Talk Express in New Hampshire, the theme of the latest episode as i write this. [I almost would have had to look that one up, I didn't remember right away which year that was])
Mr. Dickerson is a busy man. From his weekend gig talking with the rich and famous on the TV, to gabbing for almost an hour with his gaggle of smarty, hip LOCs at Slate most Thursdays, to criss-crossing the nation to talk to real people too so as not to be out of touch, to moderating a presidential debate (yes, please, more Dickerson debates!), where does he find the time, right?
One of the answers is that Mr. Dickerson doesn't frown on entertaining, and he will rather have fun and be funny doing it than be formally respectable but popularly indigestible. This liberates him from perfectionism and releases him into the possibilities offered in the less cosseted approach. Together with his facility at recalling facts from his life-long study of politics, this ensures that when there's a tale to be told, he will tell it in a captivating, yet edifying way.
Fascinating
This is a great podcast. John Dickerson tells the history of various presidential campaigns with a lot of wit, suspense and enthusiasm. You feel his love for each episode. And now i want to know everything there is about presidential history and i am a listener from Germany. Great Job slate Podcast