Abraham Lincoln with Sidney Blumenthal
Dan Snow's History Hit
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🗓️ 19 November 2020
⏱️ 24 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Hi there everybody, welcome to Dan Snow's history. I'm very excited about this part. I've got |
| 0:04.1 | someone who's served at the pinnacle of journalism, government and now history. He's Sidney Blumenthal. |
| 0:09.9 | He was a very senior political journalist that he jumped ship. |
| 0:13.8 | Poacher turned Gamekeeper went to work for Bill Clinton in the White House. He was a senior |
| 0:18.4 | advisor of the president from 97 to 2001. He was a close advisor to Hillary Clinton during her |
| 0:25.9 | attempts to win the presidency and now he's embarked on a massive one million-word project, |
| 0:32.4 | a gigantic set of biographies, multi-volume biography Abraham Lincoln. Today, the date of the first |
| 0:41.0 | broadcast of this podcast, the 19th of November 2020, we got lost going on in the world. We got |
| 0:46.0 | Donald Trump refusing to accept the results of the election, aided and abetted by many Republican |
| 0:52.4 | politicians and officials. But as importantly today is the anniversary of the Get His Burger Dress, |
| 0:58.7 | a very short speech that is one of the best known and one of the most important speeches in the |
| 1:04.6 | history of the English language. When Abraham Lincoln gives quite a succinct history lesson and |
| 1:10.6 | effectively refounds the American political project. If you want to watch documentaries about US |
| 1:16.6 | history, listen to other podcasts. We have got a TV channel, it's like Netflix, but just for history, |
| 1:22.2 | we cover everything from the Stone Age to the New Clearhage to the present day. We got it all. |
| 1:27.5 | You can go to historyhit.tv if you use the code pod1pod1 you get a month for free and you get a |
| 1:34.1 | second month for just one dollar, one euro, one pound, one whatever. That takes you through to the |
| 1:41.3 | new year. That takes you through to the Biden presidency for just a buck, for a quid, for a year. |
| 1:47.5 | I'm not sure what the slang for a euro is. In the meantime everyone, here is Sydney Blumenthal. Enjoy. |
| 2:00.0 | Sydney, thank you so much for coming on the podcast. Clasher, glad to be here. |
| 2:03.7 | America is famous for the size of its presidential biographies and you are writing the largest |
| 2:08.9 | presidential biography of them all. Why Lincoln? I've been completely fascinated and obsessed with |
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