Exploring the meticulous scrapbooks of Charles Sherrill at the New York Historical Society, shedding light on his luxurious lifestyle, intriguing relationship with his wife, and infatuation with the Nazi Party in the 1930s. The chapter also includes acknowledgments and credits for the episode production.
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.
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