Bonus Episode: From Drug Deals to the New Deal

The Thread With OZY by OZY

Dec 18, 201709:05Society & Culture

A century before his grandson, President Franklin Delano Roosevelt, rose to power, Warren Delano grew very rich from trafficking a highly addictive drug.

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