Literary Battle Royal 2 - The Cold War (U.S. vs. U.S.S.R.)

The History of Literature

Jacke Wilson

History, Books, Arts

4.6 • 1.2K Ratings

🗓️ 22 June 2020

⏱️ 61 minutes

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Sputnik! Cuba! Glasnost and perestroika! In this follow-up to the very popular England vs. France literary battle royal, Jacke and Mike choose up sides and imagine the Cold War being fought by each nation's greatest authors. Enjoy! Help support the show at patreon.com/literature or historyofliterature.com/shop. (We appreciate it!) Find out more at historyofliterature.com, jackewilson.com, or by following Jacke and Mike on Twitter at @thejackewilson and @literatureSC. Or send an email to [email protected]. Music Credits: “Sweeter Vermouth” and “Bad Ideas” by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 License http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ *** This show is a part of the Podglomerate network, a company that produces, distributes, and monetizes podcasts. We encourage you to visit the website and sign up for our newsletter for more information about our shows, launches, and events. For more information on how The Podglomerate treats data, please see our Privacy Policy. Since you're listening to The History of Literature, we'd like to suggest you also try other Podglomerate shows surrounding literature, history, and storytelling like Storybound, Micheaux Mission, and The History of Standup. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	The History of Literature Podcast is a member of the Podglamorate Network and LIT Hub Radio.
0:07.0	Hello, I'm Jack Wilson.
0:11.0	Welcome to The History of Literature. Okay, here we go. Welcome to the podcast. I'm Jack Wilson. I think I've said that already and you are
0:36.8	Maybe I should do this as a script go ahead and say your name out loud. I'm Jack Wilson the host of the show and you are
0:45.4	Did you say your name out loud? Actually say it out loud? I kind of hope you did. I hope you said it loudly and with pride and with gusto no matter where you are, no matter who you are, no matter where you are. The exercise
1:01.8	bike, the laundry room, sitting in the coffee shop
1:06.1	lying in bed, say your name like you've just climbed a mountain and it's time for
1:11.5	the universe to hear that you are here. I'm Jack Wilson and you are.
1:17.0	Okay, okay, that's loud enough.
1:20.0	Pipe down, we're do.
1:23.0	So we have a great show today, a fun one.
1:26.0	We're headed back to the Cold War with the U.S. versus the mighty U.S.S.R.
1:32.0	This was my childhood folks and it dominated the thinking of those of us in America.
1:37.0	Are we Athens? Are they Sparta? What's going on here? Freedom versus totalitarianism. It dominated world
1:50.0	geopolitics as well but it was essential to our definition in America
1:55.4	of who we were and who we wanted to be. We were on the side of freedom and
1:59.3	democracy and in some ways that self-conception having that empire and opposition held our
2:09.1	feet to the fire fear of embarrassment of being accused of hypocrisy. We were the ones who didn't spy on your citizens,
2:18.0	who didn't rig elections, who treated everyone as equal.
2:22.0	Oh, crap. We're not doing that. who treated everyone as equal.
2:23.0	Oh, crap. We're not doing that. Well, we'd better fix it.
2:26.0	That's how things were in the 60s and 70s and 80s.
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