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Episode 132: Erik Larson

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Education, Books, Arts, News

4.71.9K Ratings

🗓️ 10 March 2015

⏱️ 65 minutes

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Summary

Erik Larson is the author of several books, including The Devil in the White City. His latest is Dead Wake: The Last Crossing of the Lusitania. "I realized then and there, that afternoon, the thing that was going to make this interesting was the juxtaposition of light and dark, good and evil. This monument of civic good will versus this monument to the dark side of human nature. ... But that was really hard to pull off. And, frankly, on the eve of publication I was pretty sure my career was over." Thanks to TinyLetter, Wealthfront, andLove and Other Ways of Dying, the new collection from Michael Paterniti, for sponsoring this week's episode.  Show Notes: @exlarson eriklarsonbooks.com [1:00] Dead Wake: The Last Crossing of the Lusitania (Crown • Mar 2015) [1:00] Longform Podcast #93: Michael Paterniti [1:00] "Eating Jack Hooker's Cow" (Michael Paterniti • Esquire • Nov 1997) [4:00] Thunderstruck (Crown • 2004) [22:00] Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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Support for this episode comes from Zell.

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But, scammers are getting more sophisticated and more active,

0:21.0

which means they're finding millions of new victims every single year.

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0:36.7

trust.

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0:40.9

Terms and conditions apply.

0:48.0

Support for this show comes from Krakan. Cripto is like the financial system but different.

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It doesn't care where you come from, what you look like, your

0:54.9

credit school or your outrageous food delivery habits.

0:58.7

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1:03.8

Cracken, see what crypto can be.

1:06.8

Don't invest unless you're prepared to lose all the money you invest.

1:09.8

This is a high-risk investment and you should not expect to be protected if something goes wrong.

1:14.0

Hello, welcome to the long-form podcast. I'm Max Linsky. I'm here with just one co-host

1:23.6

Aaron Lamer. How are you sir? Good. Attempts to go fart in Evan's chair

1:28.4

while he's gone. You've already done that a few times. I don't know why you have to pretend like you haven't done that.

1:34.0

Evan is gone, but we are doing something for the first time on the show.

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