Every week, Hillsdale College President Larry Arne joins Hugh Hewitt to discuss great books,

great men, and great ideas. This is Hillsdale Dialogues, part of the Hillsdale College

Podcast Network. More episodes at podcast.

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Morning and glory and evening, Grace.

America.

I'm Hugh Hewitt.

That music means, of course, the Hillsdale dialogue is getting underway.

I hear from you, folks, wherever I go, whether it's Little Rock or Manchester, New Hampshire,

you love these dialogues.

And I do, too.

I do want to tell you where we are.

We are right now on the 12th episode in a series that Dr. Larry Arne, President of Hillsdale College and I, are doing on Winston

Churchill's memoir of the Second World War. And we spent 12 episodes and we're only at page

286, so I don't know when we'll be done, hopefully before the world ends. But Dr. Arne, a good Friday to you. This is part 12, but I also

thought, since it's the Anschluss, that before we do that, we get a word from you about John

Churchill, the first Duke of Marlborough, and Winston Churchill was the grandson of the

seventh Duke of Marlborough, so he's a direct descendant of John Marlborough, and Eugene of

Savoy, which is in Austria for the benefit of the Steelers fans, because there's so much

history surrounding Germany, England, and Austria that we're going to put it front and center

in this episode. But first, just a word

about how long

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