Garrison Davis

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Was this before he wrote his stories?

It must have been.

Our new podcast series, The Secret World of Roald Dahl, is a wild journey through the hidden chapters of his extraordinary, controversial life.

His job was literally to seduce the wives of powerful Americans.

What?

And he was really good at it.

You probably won't believe it either.

I'm telling you.

The guy was a spy.

Did you know Dahl got cozy with the Roosevelts, played poker with Harry Truman, and had a long affair with a congresswoman?

How did this secret agent wind up as the most successful children's author ever?

But today we're talking about his new book, Strange People on the Hill, How Extremism Tore Apart a Small American Town.

Mike, thanks so much for coming on.

I'm excited to talk about this.

Yeah, I was worried that I wasn't gonna have time to like read the whole book.

I mean, you talk about this a lot in the book, right?

The stresses of covering this beat, but I sat down to read it and I read it in one sitting.

It is very compelling.

Wow.