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It is named in honor of the United States founding document

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Hi, everybody. This is Gottside for the Sad Truth.

Today I have the back-to-but back punch. I had James

Hankins about a month and a half ago. Today I have as co-author on this

mammoth two-volume series, the Golden Thread. Alan Gelsso, how are you

doing sir? I am doing well. I am doing well indeed and happy to talk about the golden thread.

I'm looking forward to it. Let me just tell people who you are. You're the Thomas W. Smith Distinguished Research Scholar in the James Madison Program in American Ideals and Institutions at Princeton University. You're an expert on American intellectual history. Some of your

books include Our Ancient Faith, Lincoln Democracy and the American Experiment, Robert E. Lee,

Alive, his biography, Gettysburg, The Last Invasion, Faithful Lightning, a New History of

the Civil War and Reconstruction. And as I said in the introduction,

your forthcoming volume two of the Golden Thread, the Modern and Contemporary West, will be out

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