Description
This first “Blitz Edition” of the show looks at the hidden side of history, the impact of drugs and alcohol on past events. Dan has a whole list of historical figures he wants to drug test.
Dan’s research and book list
1. Alexander the Great: The Invisible Enemy by John Maxwell O’Brien.
2. An Unfinished Life: John F. Kennedy, 1917 – 1963 by Robert Dallek.
3. Forty Ways to Look at Winston Churchill: A Brief Account of a Long Life by Gretchen Rubin.
4. The Greatest War Stories Never Told: 100 Tales from Military History to Astonish, Bewilder, and Stupefy by Rick Beyer.
5. The Medical Casebook of Adolf Hitler: His Illnesses, Doctors, and Drugs by Leonard L. Heston.
6. The Hitler Book: The Secret Dossier Prepared for Stalin from the Interrogations of Otto Guensche and Heinze Linge, Hitler’s Closest Personal Aides by Henrik Eberle.
7. Forces of Habit: Drugs and the Making of the Modern World by David T. Courtwright.
8. One Hell of a Gamble: Khrushchev, Castro, and Kennedy, 1958-1964 by Aleksandr Fursenko.
9. Inside the Third Reich by Albert Speer.
10. The Secret History of Alcoholism: The Story of Famous Alcoholics and Their Destructive Behavior by James Graham.
Vinl –
An absolutely interesting episode, it exposed the other side of the history that me never considered of
Chad zalunardo –
Love this one, fascinating scary, and insightful. A must have from Dan Carlin, my favorite episode as of listening to him, much more to go. Well worth the nominal change to buy. I’d have paid five times as much.
-Chad
Joshua Owens –
This is THE SHOW that got me, not only into podcasts in general, but into Dan Carlin.
The amount of info that, I can only imagine, goes into each & every episode is equivalent to my father: Libraries of information
If what he knows is a Gallon….I got a Cup, maybe. Same as DC
Quality over quantity….by far!
Wow!
kvonderfecht –
The idea behind this was fascinating. I thoroughly enjoyed it. I just wished it would have gone more in depth. Consider the history of Central America; a land completely saturated intoxicants. What influence could intoxicants have had on these cultures; divination of the gods, architecture, and even hardcore human sacrifice.