Founding Fathers

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Washington's Farewell: The Founding Father's Warning to Future Generations

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Presidential Misconduct: From George Washington to Today

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William McKinley: The Life and Legacy of the Third President to Be Assassinated

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How Did We Get Here?: From Theodore Roosevelt to Donald Trump

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Accidental Presidents: Eight Men Who Changed America

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John Jay: Founding Father

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The American Experiment: Dialogues on a Dream

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The American Story: Conversations with Master Historians

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James Monroe: A Republican Champion

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Seven Events That Made America America: And Proved That the Founding Fathers Were Right All Along

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Theodore Roosevelt: An American Force

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William Howard Taft: The American Presidents Series: The 27th President, 1909-1913

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Theodore Roosevelt: A Strenuous Life

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Lincoln on the Verge: Thirteen Days to Washington

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Three Days in January: Dwight Eisenhower's Final Mission

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George Mason: The Founding Father Who Gave Us the Bill of Rights

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The Patriots: Alexander Hamilton, Thomas Jefferson, John Adams, and the Making of America

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They Made America Great: 31 Endearing Legacies Worth Heeding Today

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Founding Rivals: Madison vs. Monroe, the Bill of Rights, and the Election That Saved a Nation

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Foundations of Our Democracy: The Documents that Made America: The Declaration of Independence, The US Constitution, The Federalist Papers, and The US Bill of Rights

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Theodore Roosevelt: A Biography of an American President

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Common Sense

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James Garfield: The Life and Legacy of the Second President to Be Assassinated

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Summary of John Adams by David McCullough

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Saving Freedom: Truman, the Cold War, and the Fight for Western Civilization

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Thomas Jefferson: American Revolutionary

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James Madison

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Presidential Elections and Majority Rule: The Rise, Demise, and Potential Restoration of the Jeffersonian Electoral College

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Benjamin Franklin

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Shays’ Rebellion and the Whiskey Rebellion: The History and Legacy of Early America’s Domestic Insurrections

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On Writing: A Memoir Of The Craft

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Cultish: The Language of Fanaticism

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The Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows

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The Six Cs of Effective Storytelling

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The Mother Tongue: English and How It Got That Way

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Talk Like TED: The 9 Public-Speaking Secrets of the World's Top Minds

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The Art of Subtext: Beyond Plot

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Win Every Argument: The Art of Debating, Persuading, and Public Speaking

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Learn Spanish with Paul Noble for Beginners – Complete Course: Spanish Made Easy with Your 1 million-best-selling Personal Language Coach

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Summary: How to Know a Person: The Art of Seeing Others Deeply and Being Deeply Seen By David Brooks: Key Takeaways, Summary and Analysis

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We Need to Talk: How to Have Conversations That Matter

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Wordslut: A Feminist Guide to Taking Back the English Language

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How to Read a Book: The Classic Guide to Intelligent Reading

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On Writing Well Audio Collection

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The Plot Thickens: 8 Ways to Bring Fiction to Life: 8 Ways to Bring Fiction to Life

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A Life of One's Own: Nine Women Writers Begin Again

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Saved: A War Reporter's Mission to Make It Home

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Fluent in 3 Months: How Anyone at Any Age Can Learn to Speak Any Language from Anywhere in the World

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Once Upon a Tome: The Misadventures of a Rare Bookseller

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Mastering Logical Fallacies: The Definitive Guide to Flawless Rhetoric and Bulletproof Logic

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How To Get Your Point Across In 30 Seconds Or Less

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The First Five Pages: A Writer's Guide To Staying Out of the Rejection Pile

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How to Write Your First Novel: The Stress-Free Guide to Writing Fiction for Beginners

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The Lincoln-Douglas Debates: The First Complete, Unexpurgated Text

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Win Your Case: How to Present, Persuade, and Prevail--Every Place, Every Time

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Writing Fiction, Tenth Edition: A Guide to Narrative Craft

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Write for Life: Creative Tools for Every Writer (A 6-Week Artist's Way Program)

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The Alphabet Versus the Goddess: The Conflict Between Word and Image

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Summary: Quiet by Susan Cain

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Speed Reading: Learn to Read a 200+ Page Book in 1 Hour

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Beth Macy on 'Dopesick'

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Martin Van Buren: The story of our two-party system: Martin Van Buren did much to create the political party establishments we have today. Experts Barbara Bair and Mark Cheathem, along with Washington Post reporter Chris Cillizza, examine his mark on modern politics.

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66: Peter Turchin - Why Empires Rise & Fall

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217. Mary Grabar on the 1619 Project, Howard Zinn, Historical Revisionism, and Pseudohistory: Michael Shermer speaks with Mary Grabar about her books and Debunking Howard Zinn: Exposing the Fake History That Turned a Generation Against America. According to the New York Times’s “1619 Project,” America was not founded in 1776, with a...

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William Henry Harrison: Great song, horrible death: Washington Post humor columnist Alexandra Petri, along with Barbara Bair and Dr. Philip Mackowiak, deconstruct Harrison's transformative presidential campaign and debunk the myth of what killed him after only 32 days in office.

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128 Alan Taylor, American Revolutions: A Continental History: Historians often portray the American Revolution as an orderly, if violent, event that moved from British colonists’ high-minded ideas about freedom to American independence from Great Britain and the ratification of the Constitution of 1787. But...

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Rick Atkinson: The British Are Coming: The War for America, Lexington to Princeton, 1775-1777: Author Rick Atkinson returns to the PMML to discuss his latest book titled The British Are Coming, which is the first volume of his new trilogy about the American Revolution.

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J. Bradford DeLong, "Slouching Towards Utopia: An Economic History of the Twentieth Century" (Basic Books, 2020): An interview with J. Bradford DeLong

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Innovation VS Modernization

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Kevin McCarthy’s Job Is Going to Be Miserable: In recent weeks, America got a preview of how the new Republican House majority would wield its power. In attempting to perform a basic function of government — electing a speaker — a coalition of 20 House members caused Kevin McCarthy to lose 14 rounds of votes, decreasing his power with each compromise and successive vote. This is not normal. Party unity ebbs and flows, but the G.O.P. in recent decades has come apart at the seams. Nicole Hemmer is the director of the Carolyn T. and Robert M. Rogers Center for the American Presidency at Vanderbilt University, an associate professor of history and the author of two books about the conservative movement and media ecosystem, “Messengers of the Right: Conservative Media and the Transformation of American Politics” and “Partisans: The Conservative Revolutionaries Who Remade American Politics in the 1990s.” And she says we can’t understand the current G.O.P. without understanding when, where a

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Barbara Jordan, Your Keynote Speaker

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S3 Ep 5 - Beginning of the End: “We can’t have [South Vietnam] knocked over before the election.” - Henry Kissinger, to Nixon

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Mike Duncan on The Marquis de Lafayette and His Two Worlds: With podcast host of Revolutions and History of Rome Mike Duncan, we talk about the Marquis de Lafayette. He left an aristocratic life in France to fight in the American Revolution, and did so with bravery and zeal. He remains the central figure of American-French cooperation. Mike talks about Lafayette's role not just in American history but in French history. He also talks about his book, Hero of Two Worlds. We also chat about Napoleon and Lafayette, French generals and other stories. Music by Kevin McLeod and Chris Novembrino.

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S3 Ep 3 - Sideshow: In the fall of 1969, with the anti-war movement newly mobilized and gaining traction across the country, President Nixon appeals to his base, and coins a new phrase — The Silent Majority.

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Peter Zeihan Debunked

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Pandemic, propaganda and the presidency: The 1918 influenza pandemic killed more than 675,000 Americans, but President Woodrow Wilson never made a single public statement about it. Why? Here’s what happens when efforts to promote patriotism and suppress free speech collide with a deadly virus.

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Jonathan Rauch on the Constitution of Knowledge

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The collapse of Silicon Valley Bank: Silicon Valley Bank is dead. The institution that was a major financier for venture capitalists, tech start-ups and other Silicon Valley outfits has collapsed. Enter: the federal government.

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What Will Become of Syria in 2023? Joby Warrick on the Future of a Catastrophe: JIn this KEEN ON episode, Andrew talks to the Washington Post's Pulitzer prize winning journalist and Syria expert Toby Warrick on the chances for a peaceful solution to the Syrian civil war in 2023.

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BONUS | Happy Presidents’ Day! Or … not?: Students, teachers and historians reflect on what has changed — and should change — about the way we teach presidential history today. This special episode features presidential experts Barbara Perry and Julian Zelizer, “How the Word Is Passed” author Clint Smith, and the AP government and politics class of teacher Michael Martirone.

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The Corruption of the Institutions | Ep. 5

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David E Campbell et al., "Secular Surge: A New Fault Line in American Politics" (Cambridge UP. 2020)

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Liz Cheney: "Oath and Honor": Michael welcomes Former Congresswoman Liz Cheney (R-WY) with her gripping first-hand account of the January 6th, 2021, insurrection from inside the halls of Congress, from origins to aftermath, and her dare to stand up against former President Trump and his enablers, in her new book "Oath and Honor: A Memoir and a Warning." Original air date 12 December 2023. The book was published on 5 December 2023.

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The Cold War - The Nature of Risk | 4

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A Conflict of Visions: Thomas Sowell's Constrained vs Unconstrained Vision

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All Quiet on the Western Front: In this episode, James and special guest Sean McIver discuss the classic 1930 anti-war film All Quiet on the Western Front. Based on the novel of the same name, All Quiet on the Western Front set the standard for all future war movies, especially...

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S3 Ep 6 - Off the Rails: "Somebody’s got to go to jail for this. That’s all there is to it." - Nixon to H.R. Haldeman

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Milton Friedman on Money: Russ Roberts talks with Milton Friedman about his research and views on inflation, the Federal Reserve, Alan Greenspan and Ben Bernanke, and what the future holds.

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#174 - Lawrence Wright: The 20th anniversary of the 9/11 attacks: reflections on how they happened, and lessons learned and not learned: Lawrence Wright is the author of  which won the 2007 Pulitzer Prize for general nonfiction and was named one of Time's top 100 books of all time.  In this episode, released just before the 20th anniversary of the September 11th...

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Gallipoli: James and Sean discuss the 1981 Australian film Gallipoli, which tells the story of a group of Australian young men who are introduced to the horrors of war at the 1915 Battle of Gallipoli.