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 Bachelore with David Patricia, the historian and author of the new book Roosevelt Sweeps Nation.

It's campaign time.

Alflanden and Franklin Delano Roosevelt, the nominees of the major parties.

And we begin with the Lenden campaign because there's not a great deal to say except for why there isn't a great deal to say.

David Landon does not attend the convention that nominates him.

What happens afterwards to remember?

Thank you.

Well, he makes up for not being there by not being there,

by going on vacation for two weeks at a Ritzy-Dooge ranch,

essentially, in Colorado and then not doing anything for another few weeks while

his campaign staff goes out there but he doesn't but when he finally does go out there he's more energetic

he's still a bad speaker but he gives a series of speeches at the end of the

campaign or towards the end on the tariffs of the

campaign are towards the end, on the tariffs, on agriculture, and most horribly on

Social Security, already the third rail of American politics and proceeds to just lose chunk

after chunk of electoral support. We should mention there are polling results from this summer of 1936 that are

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