#1353 Humboldt and Jefferson

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Society & Culture, History

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🗓️ 27 August 2019

⏱️ 60 minutes

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Summary

"He was iconic in the world's idea of what a nation could possibly be, and what an enlightened leader could possibly be."

— Clay S. Jenkinson portraying Thomas Jefferson

This week features another episode in the Jefferson Hour book club. We discuss Humboldt and Jefferson: A Transatlantic Friendship of the Enlightenment by Sandra Rebok, which explores the relationship between two fascinating personalities: the Prussian explorer, scientist, and geographer Alexander von Humboldt and Thomas Jefferson. They met in the spring of 1804 for just a few days, but their correspondence went on for decades.

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0:00.0	Good Day Thomas Jefferson Hour podcast listeners and first of all thank you for listening.
0:07.3	We love what we get to do and we love that you listen to us.
0:11.4	Not everything we get to do but pretty much well this and
0:14.4	I've met some people who say I love the podcast introduction that's what I
0:20.1	really most enjoy about the program and then I meet people who say for goodness
0:24.1	say can you just get on with the program you know and sometimes the same person.
0:28.4	If you listen on the radio you don't hear the podcast. You missed this richness of the pitter powder.
0:34.4	And if you listen on the radio you also get to hear what would Jefferson do.
0:39.0	Which by the way not everyone hears but this week it was about Greenland what do you know but you can
0:43.9	find every week you can find the what would Jefferson do segments on on our
0:50.4	our website at Jefferson Hour.com.
0:54.4	We love the correspondence we get, we love the questions,
0:56.4	sometimes the criticism where we answer all the mail,
0:59.4	we incorporate as much of it as we possibly can. And at popular popular request we created the Jefferson Hour book club and we've gone through a number of books this year.
1:08.0	Yes and I think next up is Robinson Crusoe isn't.
1:11.0	Oh, thank goodness. Why? Because I love
1:13.0	love that book almost more than all other books really yeah and I can't
1:16.7	wait to talk about that so everyone please read Daniel Defoes Robinson
1:22.2	Crusoe you you know the story of course.
1:25.0	Marooned on the island has to learn how to do everything for himself.
1:29.0	He eventually meets this native person, he decides to call Friday Friday and so on and so forth.
1:34.2	That's based on the life of a man named Alexander Vons Selkirk.
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