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From the Kitchen Table: The Duffys

Douglas MacKinnon: Liberty Lessons From Those Who Risked It All

From the Kitchen Table: The Duffys

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2.6544 Ratings

🗓️ 20 May 2022

⏱️ 40 minutes

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Summary

This week, Sean and Rachel sit down with former White House and Pentagon official, and author Douglas MacKinnon to discuss his new book, The 56: Liberty Lessons From Those Who Risked All to Sign The Declaration of Independence. Douglas shares the story behind the Fourth of July, analyzes the vision of the signers, and explains how they ended up being erased from our history. He later emphasizes why we should never twist or cancel our shared American history. Follow Sean and Rachel on Twitter: @SeanDuffyWI & @RCamposDuffy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

Hey, everyone, welcome to From the Kitchen Table.

0:15.1

I'm your host, Sean Duffy, along with my co-host for the podcast, but also my partner in life and partner in raising kids,

0:22.7

my wife from Rachel Campos Duffy.

0:25.5

That's right.

0:26.6

Hello, everyone.

0:27.5

We're back with more conversations from our kitchen table.

0:31.0

And Sean, today I'm really excited because you brought home this book that a friend of yours gave you, your friend Ed.

0:36.4

And I was like, the second

0:39.1

I saw the cover and read the book jacket, I'm like, book them now. This is so exciting because

0:45.6

we talk so much about how we're losing our liberty. And a really amazing American named

0:50.9

Douglas MacKinnon, who, by the way, worked as a writer for, you know, just Ronald Reagan.

0:56.0

Just Ronald Reagan.

0:57.0

George H.W. Bush and his work to inside of the Pentagon, the White House.

1:02.0

He wrote a book and listened to the title.

1:05.0

It's called The 56 Liberty Lessons from Those Who Risk all to sign the declaration of independent. I mean,

1:14.9

do we need this book now or what, Sean? Listen, now more than ever, because I think that so many

1:19.0

of us think that freedom just came free, we don't look at at all of the sacrifices that were made

1:24.1

by the men, and they were men, who signed this Declaration of Independence.

1:28.4

That's very sexist.

1:29.4

I know it is.

1:30.5

But they did.

1:31.2

They risked all.

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