David McCullough: The Founding Fathers Were Not Like Us?
Our American Stories
iHeartPodcasts
4.6 • 816 Ratings
🗓️ 26 January 2024
⏱️ 12 minutes
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On this episode of Our American Stories, renowned historian David McCullough answers the question - about a most extraordinary group of men at a most extraordinary time in world history.
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| 0:00.0 | This is an IHeart podcast. |
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| 0:29.3 | And that was that moment. |
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| 0:44.7 | You know, or wherever you get your podcast. And we continue with our American stories. |
| 0:48.4 | And up next, the late historian, David McCullough, is here to tell the story of John Adams. |
| 0:56.5 | And we want to thank the John Adams Institute in the Netherlands for providing and sharing |
| 1:01.6 | this audio with us. |
| 1:02.7 | This was a speech McCullough gave before he died in the Netherlands at the Institute. |
| 1:09.2 | Here's David McCullough with some of his great storytelling |
| 1:12.6 | about our founding fathers and why we must know our history. |
| 1:18.6 | They weren't just like we are. |
| 1:21.6 | We can never assume they were just, they were nothing like we are in many, many ways. |
| 1:25.6 | And one of the ways I tried to get inside their lives was to try and read not just what they wrote, |
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