

Slow Burn
Slate Podcasts
Slow Burn illuminates America’s most consequential moments, making sense of the past to better understand the present. Through archival tape and first-person interviews, the series uncovers the surprising events and little-known characters lurking within the biggest stories of our time.Want more Slow Burn? Join Slate Plus to unlock full, ad-free access to Slow Burn and your other favorite Slate podcasts. You can subscribe directly from the Slow Burn show page on Apple Podcasts and Spotify. Or, visit slate.com/slowburnplus to get access wherever you listen.Season 10: The Rise of Fox NewsHow a cable news channel became a cultural and political force—and how a whole bunch of people rose up to try and stop it.Season 9: Gays Against BriggsA nationwide moral panic, a California legislator who rode the anti-gay wave, and the LGBTQ+ people who stepped up and came out to try and stop him.Season 8: Becoming Justice ThomasWhere Clarence Thomas came from, how he rose to power, and how he’s brought the rest of us along with him, whether we like it or not. Winner of the Podcast of the Year at the 2024 Ambies Awards.Season 7: Roe v. WadeThe women who fought for legal abortion, the activists who pushed back, and the justices who thought they could solve the issue for good. Winner of Apple Podcasts Show of the Year in 2022.Season 6: The L.A. RiotsHow decades of police brutality, a broken justice system, and a video tape set off six days of unrest in Los Angeles.Season 5: The Road to the Iraq WarEighteen months after 9/11, the United States invaded a country that had nothing to do with the attacks. Who’s to blame? And was there any way to stop it?Season 4: David DukeAmerica’s most famous white supremacist came within a runoff of controlling Louisiana. How did David Duke rise to power? And what did it take to stop him?Season 3: Biggie and TupacHow is it that two of the most famous performers in the world were murdered within a year of each other—and their killings were never solved?Season 2: The Clinton ImpeachmentA reexamination of the scandals that nearly destroyed the 42nd president and forever changed the life of a former White House intern.Season 1: WatergateWhat did it feel like to live through the scandal that brought down President Nixon?
Top mentioned books
Here are the most frequently recommended books on the Slow Burn podcast:

#1 Mentioned in 2 episodes
Supercommunicators
How to Unlock the Secret Language of Connection

#2 Mentioned in 2 episodes
How to Change
The Science of Getting from Where You Are to Where You Want to Be

#3 Mentioned in 2 episodes
Lovely One

#4 Mentioned in 2 episodes
1984
#5 Mentioned in 1 episodes
Chicken Soup for the Soul : Christmas Magic

#6 Mentioned in 1 episodes
Paved Paradise
How Parking Explains the World
#7 Mentioned in 1 episodes
Chicken Soup for the Cat Lover's Soul

#8 Mentioned in 1 episodes
Longitude
The True Story of a Lone Genius Who Solved the Greatest Scientific Problem of His Time

#9 Mentioned in 1 episodes
King of Comedy
The Life and Art of Jerry Lewis

#10 Mentioned in 1 episodes
Making the American mouth
#11 Mentioned in 1 episodes
Chicken Soup for the Christian Teenage Soul
#12 Mentioned in 1 episodes
Chicken Soup for the Entrepreneur's Soul

#13 Mentioned in 1 episodes
Chicken soup for the American idol soul

#14 Mentioned in 1 episodes
Where the Boys Are

#15 Mentioned in 1 episodes
Funny Story

#16 Mentioned in 1 episodes
Mauve
How One Man Invented a Colour That Changed the World

#17 Mentioned in 1 episodes
Chicken Soup for the Soul
Cartoons for Teachers

#18 Mentioned in 1 episodes
Hollywood and the Holocaust
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#19 Mentioned in 1 episodes
Tupperware Unsealed
Brownie Wise, Earl Tupper, and the Home Party Pioneers
#20 Mentioned in 1 episodes