To celebrate American ingenuity on the week of July the 4th, Jason Crockett and I sit down and talk about Erik Larson's The Devil in the White City which covers the birth, planning, and execution of the 1893 Chicago World's Fair. Behind this ingenuity however is an insidiousness as America's first serial killer, H.H. Holmes, was lurking about the streets of Chicago, seducing and devouring any woman that was willing to be lured into his trap. We're asking the tough questions. What are the American achievements that we can celebrate in our present day? Could the scariest thing about H.H. Holmes be that he appeared to be normal and hidden? Or could it be that his intelligence manifested in the darkest of all ways? We answer these and more in today's episode

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The Devil in the White City by Eric Larson

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Painter Val Welch is sent to Dawes, Wyoming where he is a part of Franklin D. Roosevelt's New Deal working in the WPA. In this program, Welch is painting a mural in the local post office of Dawes. While in Wyoming, Welch is housed with rancher John Long and his wife Eve. Welch takes his journey to the mountain west expecting to paint. What he doesn't expect is that he will be sent on a mission to track down Eve Long as she has disappeared from the ranch, and that he may fall in love? We're asking the tough questions. What do you do when you fall in love with someone that you are tasked with tracking down for their spouse? Unobtainable love is here in this one, too? Is Charles Frazier a true master of historical fiction? Hannah Randolph joins us as we wrap up our Month of Frazier with Charles Frazier's The Trackers.

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We check in on this year's Big Summer Read, The Stand by Steven King. We will be looking at what we are listing as part 1 or chapters 1-35. We're asking the tough questions. How much does this book feel like 2020? How much does this book feel like summer of 2025? Who is emerging as our protagonists of the story? Jason Crockett joins us as we answer these and more for our special episode in which we check-in with our Big Summer Read.

We hope you're following along with us! If you haven't started, hop in! There still some summer left.

Resources:

The Stand - The Complete and Uncut Edition by Stephen King

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Jason Crockett's show, With Honors on Spotify or Apple Podcast.

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