Have you ever felt like escaping to your own desert island?

Jane Gaskin did exactly that, trading in the family home to begin a new life in the

tropics.

But she soon discovers that Paradise has its secrets.

I'm Alice Levine, and this is the price of Paradise,

the island dream that ends in kidnap, corruption, and murder.

Wish you were here.

Follow the price of Paradise Now, wherever you listen to podcasts. I'm John John Matcher with David Petruche, his new book is Roosevelt Sweeps Nation, FDR's

1936 landslide in the Triumph of the liberal ideal. Roosevelt is without his best advisor.

Louis B. Howe is gone. Roosevelt now faces Al Smith, his old mentor on his right with the American Liberty League.

Preaching is the Constitution for sale and other provocative remarks that irritate the president.

He is very sensitive, although he's always laughing when you see him in the newsreels.

That is a style that Louis Howe approved of, just keep them laughing.

However, the president has to deal with the fact that he sits

upon a Democratic Party that has been solid since the Civil War and before as what is politely known at the time as the way things are.

We would call it today unacceptable racism, vast and crushing the Jim Crow laws were the beginning of it.

Roosevelt knows this.

He also knows that he can be challenged from the South by two men and we're about to

meet them.

One, his name is Huey Long from Louisiana who is a character

beyond belief except for he's real and the other is Herman Talmud from Georgia.

Let's start with long David. What is long is gone by 36 but what he represents challenges Roosevelt what is what was it that was most worrying to the

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