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Recovered Radio History

Jesse Walker | 1.25.2010 4:38 PM

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In which Paul Harvey tries to sneak onto a nuclear testing site, is captured and interrogated, and begins a lifelong friendship with J. Edgar Hoover, who "helped Harvey with research, suggested changes in scripts and showered the broadcaster with effusive praise."

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Jesse Walker is books editor at Reason and the author of Rebels on the Air and The United States of Paranoia.

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