#1474 Ten Things About Alexander Hamilton

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🗓️ 17 December 2021

⏱️ 56 minutes

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Lindsay Chervinsky joins Clay Jenkinson this week for the first of a series of programs titled "Ten Things." The conversations center on historical figures from the founding era, and ten things you may or may not know about them.

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0:00.0	Good day, Thomas Jefferson, our podcast listeners. We're so glad that you've decided to listen to
0:05.5	the program this week. And it's a really fun one. Clay, you had a great idea for doing a series
0:11.4	of shows, 10 things about. And this first one is with Lindsey Chervinsky. And it's my understanding
0:19.8	that most all of the upcoming ones will be with Lindsey Chervinsky. And so this week it was 10
0:25.9	things about Mr. Hamilton. And it was just a delightful conversation. I knew she's the right
0:32.2	person for this, David, because she's so lively, a quick-witted, funny. She has an exquisite and
0:37.9	slightly snarky sense of humor. And she's not afraid to say what she means in plain English. And
0:43.1	I think that's exactly what this program needs. And so it came about this way. I went to see
0:49.0	the musical Hamilton. And then I came back and started to read a little bit more about him.
0:54.3	And I came upon the notion that Tally Iran, the French diplomat, said that Hamilton might have
0:58.7	been the greatest man of his time. And I thought, boy, that's interesting. I want to ask Lindsey
1:04.6	Chervinsky about that. And then I thought, you know what? I'm going to make a list of a series of
1:09.4	things that I'd like to ask Joe Ellis or Lindsey or David Swenson about. And so then I made this,
1:15.0	and it came to me in the night. I'll do a series of programs called 10 Things. And we'll do it of a
1:20.4	dozen or more figures from James Monroe and Patrick Henry to Abigail Adams and Mercy Otis Warren,
1:26.5	etc. To Lafayette or Condor Say or George Washington. Adams, James Madison, you know, the full
1:34.1	panoply of people. And if our audience likes it, and I think you will say, David, that the first
1:42.0	program proves that they will, then I'd like to do a lot of this. And I think this could become a
1:46.9	series that will be very delightful. And I have to say, and maybe more sincerely, that I really
1:58.3	like this Chervinsky. She is a young, brilliant scholar. We're fortunate to have her at one end
2:05.8	of the actuarial table. We have our great friend, Joe Ellis, who's one of the senior historians
2:12.0	of this country. And at the other end, we have this up and coming young scholar who is associated
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