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    One Year: Mary Shane's Rookie Season

    One Year: Mary Shane's Rookie Season

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    One Year: Mary Shane's Rookie Season

    FromSlow Burn

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    Length:
    55 minutes
    Released:
    Jul 29, 2021
    Format:
    Podcast episode

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    Mary Shane made history with the Chicago White Sox, becoming the first woman hired as a legitimate major-league baseball announcer. But in 1977, she had to fight to be taken seriously in one of America’s most sexist industries.
    One Year is produced by Josh Levin, Evan Chung, and Madeline Ducharme. Mixing by Merritt Jacob.
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    Released:
    Jul 29, 2021
    Format:
    Podcast episode

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    In the late 1980s and early 1990s, a white supremacist became an American political phenomenon. David Duke’s rise to power and prominence—his election to the Louisiana legislature, and then his campaigns for the U.S. Senate and the governorship—was an existential crisis for the state and the nation. The fourth season of Slate’s Slow Burn will explore how a Nazi sympathizer and former Klansman fashioned himself into a mainstream figure, and why some voters came to embrace his message. It will also examine how activists, journalists, and ordinary citizens confronted Duke’s candidacy, and what it took to stop him.