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“I’m listening to this to fill in some gaps in my knowledge of the subject matter. LB weAves a great tale and obviously understands pacing to keep the listener interested but she’s annoying and extremely self-aggrandizing at times. Cloaking her identity seems a bit much unless she’s working for the Official Hollywood Cultural Normalization and Propaganda Machine/Hayes Code Office as a counterterrorism asset. There’s no wAy to vet her CV.
Since she’s a screenwriter with a passion for the intersection of politics/spycraft and organized crime with an historical bent, perhaps she wrote for Boardwalk Empire since at least part of her epic seems ripped from its scenes. The Elizabeth Friedman storyline is absolutely fascinating but also glossed over, suggestive rather than well developed.
This criticism could be applied throughout since there are many assertions made that lack some degree of source specificity, for which the subject interview episodes attempt to remedy. If only they had more airtime without the pomposity bleeding through.
The background music is down right tawdry at times in its emotional pitch. I’m being lead around just like I’m viewing the latest hoi polloi highbrow best picture drama blockbuster. It gets in the way. LB would make a great audiobook narrator, she is obviously a gifted communicator. Overall very well crafted and produced and a fascinating walk through our how we got to our current chapter of ‘The March of Folly’.
My other problem is she keeps referring to things ‘no one knew’—like nazis in Argentina in tge 1930’s-40’s? Memories must be fading and family stories forgotten or inserted into the exhaustive popular history of her subject matter. Alfred Hitchcock directed a film called Notorious in 1946(Claude Raines, ingrid Bergman) that tells one such tale about espionage and German businesses tied to Nazi’s.
I had a close relative who was a treasury agent at one time prior to ww2. My father revealed a story from the era leading into Ww2 involving family friends with business ties in S. America that lead to sad ending when they were implicated in Axis supportive enterprises. If you lived in a port city in the states particularly along the Gulf Coast you knew more about these complex commercial/political relationships that included corruption, based on local knowledge.”
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United States of America ·
11/21/21
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“If you’re going to be an investigative journalist you have to follow the facts. I even let the political bias go and tried to keep going. I’d just had enough of the bull being told. Completely assumption based storytelling about people long gone. Even Sammy the Bull in his podcast , who was in...”Read full review »
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“This is an excellent series. The history is accurate and fascinating. The presentation is perfect. I encourage anyone interested in the history behind the present day evil must listen! Also follow Lincoln’s Bible on twitter.”
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United States of America ·
07/07/21
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“I kept waiting for the facts and data. I kept hearing about Russians and their hats and the mobs. It just jumped around way too much and never got to the point. If much of what she was claiming was true, the left wing media would have been over this. I just never heard the concrete evidence. ...”Read full review »
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