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Gesamtlänge aller Episoden: 4 days 7 hours 1 minute
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episode 1: The Exile
Ahmad Chalabi spent decades trying to return to Baghdad. Thanks to the Americans’ war, he finally got his wish.
episode 1: One Year: 1955 - The Team Nobody Would Play
In 1955, a team of Black Little Leaguers battled the white establishment in the Deep South.
episode 2: One Year: 1955 - The Crockett Craze
How Walt Disney created the first baby-boom phenomenon totally by accident.
episode 3: Mushroom Clouds
How weapons of mass destruction became the Bush administration’s rallying cry for war.
episode 3: One Year: 1955 - The Weather Girls
In the 1950s, women weathercasters were idolized and lusted over. They were also seen as a major threat.
episode 4: Fighting Words
Intellectuals on the right and left found themselves on the same side in the debate over Iraq.
episode 4: One Year: 1955 - Siberia, USA
The Communist-hunting housewives who spawned a far-right conspiracy theory about an American gulag.
episode 5: Four Dicks (and Vice President Cheney)
The men named Richard who helped determine whether the U.S. would go to war in Iraq.
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