Summary: This week at In The Past Lane, the American History podcast, I speak with historian Terry Golway, author of, "Frank and Al: FDR, Al Smith, and the Unlikely Alliance That Created the Modern Democratic Party." It’s a remarkable story of two unlikely allies – one a patrician who went to Harvard and the other the son of immigrants who did not graduate 8th grade – and how they came together to remake the Democratic Party into the agent of progressive reform, leading to the New Deal.
