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375 | Craig Nelson: How America Became the "Arsenal of Democracy" and the Lessons for Today

The Realignment

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The Great Debate

Charles Lindbergh was an airmail pilot who made the first solo flight from New York to Paris under harrowing circumstances. He cultivated a home-grown, all-American boy next to our quality that he was honest and direct but wasn't very sophisticated. When his child was kidnapped and murdered, he blamed the media and he took his family to live in England. There they meet other wealthy people who are sort of aligned with the Nazis. And he gets snowed by the Nazis into believing that they're going to take over the world and there's nothing you can do about it.

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