Deep Background with Noah Feldman
Behind every news headline, there’s another, deeper story. It’s a story about power. In Deep Background, Harvard Law School professor and Bloomberg View columnist Noah Feldman will bring together a cross-section of expert guests to explore the historical, scientific, legal, and cultural context that help us understand what’s really going on behind the biggest stories in the news.iHeartMedia is the exclusive podcast partner of Pushkin Industries.
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How George H.W. Bush ended Iran-Contra.
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How Hollywood tried to capitalize on Iran-Contra -- and why the story didn’t take.
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How the Iran-Contra hearings made Oliver North an icon, and got Ronald Reagan off the hook.
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How the Reagan administration tried to prevent the Iran scandal from becoming a second Watergate.
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A bonus interview with journalists Martha Honey and Tony Avirgan. Honey and Avirgan tell Leon about their time reporting on the Contra war from the southern front in Costa Rica.
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How Oliver North decided to do a little multitasking -- and ended up on a plane to Tehran.
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How the United States got involved in a not-so-secret secret war in Nicaragua.
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How the Reagan administration landed in a hostage crisis…and extended a hand to one of America’s sworn enemies.
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How a crew of amateur spies from Long Island helped the Reagan administration set the stage for Iran-Contra.
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Host Leon Neyfakh transports listeners into the day-to-day reality of our country’s most pivotal historical events, bringing to life the forgotten twists and turns of the past while shedding light on the present. Fiasco: Iran-Contra tells the story of a secret war, a secret deal, and a foreign policy scandal that threatened to destroy Ronald Reagan’s presidency — until it didn’t.
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Attorneys David Boies and Ted Olsen, who represented the Gore and Bush sides, respectively, talk about the unique challenges that came with representing their clients before the Supreme Court.
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An interview with Ralph Nader on his role as a “spoiler” in the 2000 election, and historian Mary Frances Berry, who led the 2001 commission looking into the impact that ballot box irregularities involving Black voters may have had on the outcome in Florida.
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A conversation with Craig Waters, spokesman for the Florida Supreme Court, about becoming the face of an embattled, apolitical institution during a partisan battle.
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Conversations with Florida’s former Secretary of State Katherine Harris, the Bush supporter who presided over the 2000 recount, and self-described Republican operative and “Bush liege” who embedded in Harris’s office during the recount and helped her bring the election “in for a landing.”
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An interview with Brian Noyes, who worked on the Bush 2000 presidential campaign, and what it was like to feel like an election is being stolen. Noyes oversaw an oral history project with recount alums from the Bush campaign.
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In the season finale: How the 2000 presidential election was distilled and decided in a case called Bush v. Gore.
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Democrats and Republicans hope for the best and plan for the worst.
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How public relations battles yielded big legal wins for the Bush team.
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What happened in Palm Beach County when a bitterly-contested national election came to town–and who paid the price?
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