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Michael J. Socolow is a professor in the Department of Communication and Journalism at the University of Maine. A media historian researching American and global radio in the 1920s and ’30s, Socolow is the author of Six Minutes in Berlin: Broadcast Spectacle and Rowing Gold at the Nazi Olympics. He formerly worked as a broadcast journalist for CNN and for the host broadcasting organizations for the Barcelona, Atlanta, and Sydney Olympic Games. He is a member of the Library of Congress’s Radio Preservation Task Force, and he first encountered Harry Shearer’s radio work while working as the radio cataloger in the Library of the Museum of Television and Radio in New York City.