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#1366 American Creation with Joseph Ellis

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Listening to America

Society & Culture, History

4.61.1K Ratings

🗓️ 26 November 2019

⏱️ 60 minutes

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Summary

"Understand him for his flaws as well as for his greatness." — Joe Ellis 

We welcome historian Joseph Ellis to the program this week to talk about his book American Creation. In the book, Ellis notes a series of five contributions the founding fathers made and Clay Jenkinson asks how those contributions are holding up during our time.

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Good Day Thomas Jefferson Hour Podcast listeners and thank you for listening and if you missed it last week we are so pleased to announce the Jefferson Hour Hotline.

0:14.0

The number is 701-57-57-0727 and by hotline we mean you can order CDs and so on there but mostly you can leave your

0:24.7

listener question or comment make it brief speak clearly but if you want to

0:29.6

have a question on this program we'll try to air some of them and instead of you reading people's questions

0:35.0

from email it'll be in their own voice

0:37.0

to sort of remove me even further.

0:40.0

Oh my no sir no but 701 575, 07, 27, 701, 575, 0,00027.

0:49.0

I hope you flood us.

0:50.0

Yeah, we want to hear the questions in your voices.

0:53.4

We would do the program live if we could, but we can't.

0:56.4

At least we can have your recorded questions and comments,

1:00.0

but try to make them brief because anything longer than about 35 or 40 seconds

1:04.8

is just probably not going to get on the air.

1:06.6

I also wanted to say we talked last week about the constitutional crisis show

1:11.7

and this overwhelming response we got.

1:14.2

Mostly positive.

1:15.2

You know about half a dozen people wrote in and they said,

1:18.8

where can I get a copy of this?

1:20.0

How can I share it?

1:20.8

How can I listen to it?

1:22.1

And of course we responded to most of them,

1:25.0

but if you are wanting to hear Clay's essay,

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