Historian Derek Leebaert, author of “UNLIKELY HEROES" on Franklin Roosevelt" plus LionHeart Productions “The Odd Couple" (03-12-23)

On this week's program, host, Phil Tower, first welcomes historian Derek Leebaert, author of “UNLIKELY HEROES: Franklin Roosevelt, His Four Lieutenants, and the World They Made,” (St. Martin’s Press). UNLIKELY HEROES coincides with the 90th anniversary of Franklin Roosevelt being sworn in as president (March 4, 1933). UNLIKELY HEROES examines the lives of FDR’s four lieutenants Harry Hopkins, Harold Ickes, Frances Perkins, and Henry Wallace. In the book, a very different picture emerges of how Americans saved their democracy and rescued civilization overseas. Derek Leebaert won the biennial 2020 Truman Book Award for Grand Improvisation. He was a founding editor of the Harvard/MIT journal International Security and is a co-founder of the National Museum of the U.S. Army.
Online:
https://us.macmillan.com/books/9781250274694/unlikelyheroes


In part two of this week's program, we speak with Jamie Evans, Board Member with LionHeart Productions, and Director of the play, “The Odd Couple," presented by LionHeart productions, on March 17 and 18th at Grant Fine Arts Center and later at Fremont’s Dogwood Center on March 24-March 26. LionHeart Productions is a community theater organization based in Grant, Michigan. We were also joined by Charlie Zeldenrust, who plays Felix, and Jim Jenkins, playing the role of Oscar in the classic Neal Simon presentation.

Ticket info. and more online
https://lionheartproductions.org/current-production/