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The Cut

The Hottest Weekend of 1919

The Cut

New York Magazine

Personal Journals, Documentary, Arts, Fashion & Beauty, Society & Culture

4.41.7K Ratings

🗓️ 27 August 2019

⏱️ 28 minutes

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Summary

Eve L. Ewing has spent years living in Chicago, working in Chicago, and thinking about Chicago — she knows the place. Then she found an 800-page document that changed the way she saw her hometown. On this week's show, Eve tells us the story of what happened in Chicago in the summer of 1919. Eve's book, 1919, is out now.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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Support for this show comes from Krakan.

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It doesn't care where you come from, what you look like, your credit score,

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or your outrageous food delivery habits.

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crypto is finance for everyone everywhere all the time.

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Don't invest unless you're prepared to lose all the money you invest.

0:25.0

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details. Results may vary.

0:52.8

From the cut and gimlet media, this is the cut on Tuesdays.

0:58.8

I'm your host Molly Fisher.

1:03.6

Play it right.

1:07.0

Play it right. Play it right. Play it right. Play it right. It's possible to be totally oblivious to history even when you're walking around on top of it.

1:27.0

Still, you don't really expect someone who goes on a tour of a Louisiana plantation to be surprised

1:31.8

when they hear a lot about slavery. And yet, and yet this was precisely the experience of one very unhappy Yelp reviewer.

1:39.0

My husband and I were extremely disappointed, she wrote, in a two-star review that surfaced on

1:44.8

Twitter earlier this month. The reviewer went on, I am by far not racist or against all Americans

1:50.8

having equal rights, but this was my vacation.

1:54.6

She and her husband would not be taking another plantation to her anytime soon, she said.

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