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Hey folks, get ready for a new season of blowback coming Monday, September 22nd. This time around,

we're covering the Cold War Showdown in Africa.

When apartheid South Africa invades the newly independent nation of Angola,

revolutionary Cuba sends its own army to defend its African ally,

while the United States backs a warlord whose only goal is power.

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Hey everyone. Ray here. I have a book recommendation for you. By the time the Nazis had

overtaken Paris, French artist Henri Matisse was already an enemy of the Third Reich. In his quest to dominate

not just territory but culture, Hitler declared avant-gardism to be degenerate art, guilty of cultural

disintegration, and this included the works by Matisse. The artist would defy the Nazis by continuing to make vibrant, hopeful,

colorful art that could now be found in every major art center around the world. Matisse's family,

too, would find their own methods of undermining Hitler's tyranny. From acclaimed author Christopher

Gorin, Matisse at war, Art and Resistance in Nazi-occupied France

is a skillfully told story of an icon of the French resistance and his family's role.

Matisse's daughter, Marguerite, as bold and daring as her father, would ferry intelligence

from Ren to Bordeaux, both cities, under German occupation.

She would be arrested and tortured by the Gestapo. The family matriarch Amelia in her 70s

was fortified by her open contempt for the Nazis and their art thievery. She too would be

betrayed and arrested, a must read for history buffs

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