Episode 1 -- 1599, Reconstruction, Faraday, Watergate, Poetry
In this first episode, I read excerpts from the following texts:
- *A Year in the Life of William Shakespeare* by James Shapiro -- secretly setting-up The Globe
- *The Wars of Reconstruction* by Douglas Egerton -- violent losers
- *The Electric Life of Michael Faraday* by Alan Hirshfeld -- almost missing the transformer
- *Nixonland* by Rick Perlstein -- multiple burglaries
- *Why Poetry* by Matthew Zapruder -- taking your head off