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 Bachelor with David Patricia. Great fun. David Patricia's book is great fun because at the time it was tragedy upon tragedy people were struggling to have

confidence each day that there would be a tomorrow. The world of the United States

at this time was watching Europe tumble into the catastrophe we know is the

second war, still with us, still scarring mankind.

But at this moment we come to election night and David celebrates

election night by taking us to a scene in the Hyde Park scene, the one where

Roosevelt always returned to Hyde Park. It was like he recharged his batteries there.

Eleanor is in a white chiffon gown with an immense red rose. I'm following in her belt.

I'm following David's reporting. The reporters are gathered

outside the teletype machines are chattering away. David, they still

expected for it to be close that late in the night is that correct?

Well they didn't know and the politics is a time of surprises.

Jim Farley was always very confident he had predicted that Roosevelt would take 46 out of 48 states.

Franklin Roosevelt was predicting a win and had been the whole time but not a massive landslide. The literary

digest was still which which had a sample it was a straw poll, it wasn't scientific, people mailed their responses in, but they

had millions of responses.

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