BOB DOLE : The Life that Brought Him There
Randal Wallace Presents : Bob Dole The Life that Brought Him There
We begin our second season on Bob Dole's life and career, by traveling back in time to the battlefield of Italy in World War 2. A story that will begin with Bob Dole gravely wounded on a battlefield in Italy, and end on the threshold of the 1996 Campaign for President. It is truly one of America's greatest stories.
Over the next three seasons we will tell his story and the story of the rise of the modern Republican Party. It will be the final story of National leadership for the generation of people who built the American Century. For all the attention a new generation of Republican leaders would garner, it was in fact, Bob Dole, so often in the shadow of the giants of his age, from Nixon to Reagan to Bush, and who would largely be forgotten in the coming era of Gingrich , Clinton, and the second George W. Bush, who actually led the Republican Party out of the political wilderness and back to power in both houses of Congress, even as his own efforts to win the Presidency would fall short.
In our second of three seasons, we will look back at Bob Dole's life from his tragic injury, to the eve of his Presidential Campaign in 1996. In these episodes, we will see one of the most remarkable stories of resilience, faith, and willpower, in all of American history.
We invite you to come along with us on a wild ride through the high points and low moments of modern American History, in an effort to show the citizens of today that we are an amazing and resilient nation.
Our Podcasts are separated by individual Documentary style titles. --
Season 1 : Bridging the Political Gap episodes 1 -11 --- Season 2 : Lessons in Leadership : --- The GIANTS of the Senate and Joe Biden episodes 14 - 16 ---- World War 2 Episodes 17 - 20 --- General MacArthur You're Fired Episodes 21 - 23 ---- A Celebration of the life of George Shultz episodes 26 - 28 ---- November 1963 : The end of the Age of Innocence episode 29 --- Season 3 ----The Johnson Treatment episodes 32 - 39 ---- Upheaval 1968 episodes 40 - 50 ---- Season 4: Richard Nixon 1968 -1971 The Man Who Saved the Union episodes 51 -67 ----- Season 5 Richard Nixon 1972 The Foundation of Peace episodes 71 - 96 -----1973 Ten Days in January 97 - 100 -- Season 6 Richard Nixon 1973 : Enemies at the Gate 101 - 125 ---- Season 7 Richard Nixon 1974 Through the Fire 126 - 147 ---- Season 8 Richard Nixon 1974 - 1994 The Fall and the Re-Rise of Richard Nixon. 148 - 174 plus bonus materials --- Season 9 Gerald Ford Beyond Watergate 175 -190 -- Season 10 John Jenrette. & Jimmy Carter too 191 - 224 -- Season 11 George H.W. Bush : The Leadership Lessons 225 - 250 --- Season 12: Mayor Hirsch 253 - 259, George H.W. Bush : The Sweep of History 260 - 285, Season 13 George H.W. Bush The Gulf War, The Coup, Clarence Thomas & the Cold War's End 286 - 318, Season 14 George H. W. Bush 1992 The Changing of the Guard 319 - 363 Season 15 Bob Dole 1993 - 1995 The Last Man Standing 364 - 402, Special Season 16 The Great American Authors 403 - 419 , Season Seventeen Bob Dole The Life that Brought him there 420 -
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BOB DOLE : The Life that Brought Him There
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Here is a little bit about our coming book projects:
16 Leadership Lessons From the Cold War
By Randal Wallace
What does it really take to lead in moments when history is on the line?
Drawing on five years of research from The Randal Wallace Presents Podcast, 16 Leadership Lessons From the Cold War distills timeless leadership principles from the men and women who shaped the American Century. From President Herbert Hoover through leaders like Robert Dole—and countless senators, diplomats, and public servants in between—this book explores how character, restraint, courage, and strategic thinking carried the United States through its most dangerous era.
Rather than abstract theory, Wallace brings readers behind the scenes of real decisions made under extraordinary pressure. These lessons apply not only to politics and government, but to business leadership, community service, and family life.
This is a practical guide for anyone who believes leadership is about responsibility, not celebrity—and that history still has something vital to teach us.
A Riddle in the Sand
A Novel by Randal Wallace
Roger Walker is midway through his second term as President of the United States when the world begins to unravel.
As war erupts across the Middle East, Israel is drawn into a deadly two-front conflict with Hamas and Hezbollah. At the same time, a shadowy Iranian-backed terrorist organization launches global “lone wolf” attacks designed to fracture the Western alliance. When prominent American businessmen are taken hostage, Walker must navigate a crisis that threatens not only global stability—but everything he believes in.
At the center of the storm is the one thing the lifelong bachelor president never expected to face again: the woman he once loved, now entwined in events that could cost them both everything.
In the spirit of Casablanca, A Riddle in the Sand is a modern political thriller infused with romance, sacrifice, and the eternal tension between personal desire and duty to nation.
An Ocean of Time
A Novel by Randal Wallace
When scandal destroys his political future, former Myrtle Beach mayor Cary Lockwood retreats to the last place he ever expected to start over—Key West.
Fresh off a devastating gubernatorial loss, Lockwood buys a crumbling historic guesthouse and bar on the corner of Olivia and Duval Streets—once owned by his late uncle, now his final gamble at redemption. As he rebuilds both the property and his life, Lockwood collides with a corrupt local mayor, a city full of eccentric characters, and a dangerous undercurrent beneath the island’s laid-back charm.
Then he meets a young woman with a past she’s desperate to escape—and a secret powerful enough to put both their lives at risk.
Set against the sun-soaked beauty of the Florida Keys, An Ocean of Time is a story of second chances, political intrigue, and the high price of love when the past refuses to stay buried.
These are the three projects we have on tap over the next year and a half. We hope you will want to join us.
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