7286: Donatello — The Sculptor Who Gave Stone a Psychology | pplpod
Donatello carved the first freestanding nude sculpture since antiquity and gave Renaissance Florence figures so psychologically alive that contemporaries found them unsettling. His David was beautiful...
17 Juni 21min
7285: Bruce Springsteen — The Boss and the Myth of the American Working Class | pplpod
Bruce Springsteen grew up in a dying factory town in New Jersey, watched his father move between dead-end jobs, and turned that anger and despair into the most celebrated body of working-class rock mu...
17 Juni 21min
7284: Antoni Gaudi — Why Barcelona's Genius Architect Rejected the Straight Line | pplpod
Antoni Gaudi looked at the straight line and decided nature had no use for it. He built the Sagrada Familia, Casa Batllo, and Park Guell using curves, organic forms, and structural innovations that en...
17 Juni 24min
7283: Tom Brady — The 199th Pick and the Myth of Athletic Inevitability | pplpod
Tom Brady was the 199th pick in the 2000 NFL Draft, selected after six quarterbacks nobody remembers. Twenty-three years later he retired with seven Super Bowl titles, more than any franchise in NFL h...
17 Juni 20min
7282: Sugar Ray Leonard — The Trauma Behind the Smile of Boxing's Golden Boy | pplpod
Sugar Ray Leonard won an Olympic gold medal with a smile so bright that corporate sponsors lined up before he turned professional. Behind the charm was a childhood of sexual abuse and an adulthood of ...
17 Juni 21min
7281: Rocky Marciano — The Short Heavyweight Who Retired Undefeated | pplpod
Rocky Marciano stood five feet ten inches in an era when heavyweight champions towered over six feet. He compensated with a work rate and punching power that no opponent could survive for long. He ret...
17 Juni 23min
7280: Edward III — The Accidental Legacy of England's Warrior King | pplpod
Edward III overthrew his mother's regency at seventeen, launched the Hundred Years War, and presided over the devastating Black Death that killed a third of his subjects. He built a cult of chivalry a...
17 Juni 23min
7279: James I — The Wisest Fool in Christendom and the King Who United Two Crowns | pplpod
James I of England was called the wisest fool in Christendom — a king who wrote books on theology and demonology, commissioned the most famous English Bible in history, and managed to unite the Scotti...
17 Juni 21min
