The Hated and the Dead

Kissinger said that ninety percent of politicians give the other ten percent a bad name. Each week, a guest and I discuss the life and legacy of one politician from recent times. Some are well-known, others obscure; all have left an indelible mark on our world, and often for the worse. Join me, Tom Leeman, in a journey through the corruptible and the controversial.

The Hated and the Dead is a history podcast hosted by Tom Leeman, with 137 episodes on record and a Required Pod Score of 80. PitchCentric scores this show on Booking Probability, Listen Score, and live audience signals refreshed every 24 hours.

Tom Leeman hosts The Hated and the Dead, a history show with 137 episodes published.

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  EP133: Warren Harding

  Dec 1, 20241h 16mS12

  <p>Warren Harding was the 29th President of the United States, serving between 1921 and his death from a heart attack in the Summer of 1923.<br/><br/>Harding famously proclaimed a "return to normalcy" following a frenetic period defined by severe economic downturn, race riots, anarchist bombings and labour strikes in the aftermath of the First World War. <br/><br/>Though Harding’s presidency turned out to be relatively brief, two things remain highly interesting about Harding today. Firstly, despite being very popular at the time of his death, he is now frequently ranked as one of the worst presidents in Ame...

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  EP132: Olaf Scholz

  Nov 23, 20241h 14mS11

  <p>Olaf Scholz has been Chancellor of Germany since December 2021. Following the collapse of his government a few weeks ago, he seems headed for electoral defeat early next year. Where did it all go wrong?<br/><br/>As a character, Scholz is muted and impersonal almost to the point of being dreary - famously described as the “personification of boredom in politics” by Der Spiegel. Such qualities make a profile like this difficult, so today’s episode is more policy heavy than previous ones. But it does nonetheless achieve its principal aim in telling the story of a Germany that, nearin...

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  EP131: Patrice Lumumba

  Nov 16, 20241h 8mS11

  <p>Patrice Lumumba was the first prime minister of the Democratic Republic of the Congo for just ten weeks in 1960. <br/><br/>The brevity of Lumumba's time in charge reflects he difficulties of governing an enormous, ethnically diverse country deliberately underdeveloped by its former Belgian colonial masters. <br/><br/>But it was the fomenting rivalry between the US and the Soviet Union over Africa that had the largest impact on Lumumba's time as prime minister.<br/><br/>My guest today is Stuart A. Reid. Stuart is a Senior Fellow for History and Foreign Policy at the Council on Foreign Relations...

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  EP130: Daniel Noboa

  Nov 9, 20241h 3mS11

  <p>Daniel Noboa has been President of Ecuador since November 2023. The youngest democratically elected state leader in the world, Noboa has had a highly tumultuous introduction to high office.<br/><br/>In January this year, violent crime in Ecuador, which had been increasing for nearly a decade, reached a terrible crescendo when two of the country’s gang leaders escaped from prison, and a series of armed attacks, including bombings, were inflicted on prisons, markets and TV stations. The result was a declaration of a state of emergency by Noboa’s government, only six weeks old at the time. <br/><br/>...

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  EP129: Robert Fico

  Nov 2, 20241h 1mS11

  <p>Robert Fico has been the prime minister of Slovakia since 2023, and has served in that position three times since 2006. <br/><br/>The thankfully unsuccessful attempt on Fico's life came at a time when the prime minister had become genuinely controversial internationally for the first time. This followed an increasingly erratic approach to the Slovakian media, pronounced lockdown and vaccine skepcitism in the aftermath of the pandemic, and opposition to military assistance to Ukraine - a country which shares a border with Slovakia. <br/><br/>What you’re about to hear is that there was a time when Fico was a mu...

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