#1275 Joseph Ellis

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Society & Culture, History

4.6 • 1.1K Ratings

🗓️ 27 February 2018

⏱️ 55 minutes

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Summary

"There's a perfect alignment between Jefferson's own contradictions and the rest of American history."

— Joseph J. Ellis

Clay speaks with Dr. Joseph J. Ellis, author of more than ten books, including American Sphinx, Passionate Sage, and Revolutionary Summer. His forthcoming book is American Dialogue: The Founders and Us.

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0:00.0	Good Day podcast listeners and my goodness what a podcast we have for you this week on the Thomas Jefferson hour.
0:07.0	Oh my we had the chance well let me explain what happened. I called revolutionary
0:15.0	Revolutionary Summer and I said it is I've learned everything I've ever known about the
0:19.6	revolution from this one book so I have some great insights about Jefferson and Adams in Washington.
0:24.4	Let's do a program, I said.
0:26.4	I keep walking over you.
0:28.0	Sorry, I know I'm walking over you.
0:29.0	But let's do a program on this.
0:31.0	So you did.
0:32.0	I took your advice as I always do when it comes to... on this
0:35.0	I took your advice as I always do when it comes to no when it comes to things literary I listen to you and I got a copy of
0:39.0	revolutionary summer it's not a long read it's certainly not a difficult read, it's a very enjoyable
0:44.8	read. And I would encourage listeners to pick it up. We'll put a link at Jeffersonhour.com.
0:51.0	It's about really how we almost lost the revolution in the first summer.
0:54.0	Yeah, it is.
0:55.0	You know, there were a bunch of very insightful things in that book, things that I didn't
1:00.2	know and I really appreciated the way it was written.
1:02.4	However, we didn't really get to that appreciate the way it was written however we didn't really
1:03.3	get to that in this week's podcast that was the reason well we made the
1:07.3	mistake in the call and I take I think you did that yeah of asking him about
1:12.1	Jefferson in paradox and so we never get back to
1:16.0	the revolution who's gonna stop that so next week clay and I are gonna talk a
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