The Tom Wood Show, episode 1463.

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harries.com slash woods. Hey everybody, Tom Woods here. Very glad to welcome you to Brian McClan

Week on the Tom Wood Show. We've been doing a number of theme weeks in the past, and they've gone really well, and I've gotten great feedback on them. And Brian is somebody you may not know, as well as you know, Scott Horton or Michael Malice, whom I've had on for a week at a time in the past, but he's somebody you're going to want to get to know. He is, I don't know, the best unknown historian we have in our movement. I mean, he really, really deserves to be a lot better known. He's the host of the Brian McClanahan Show, an excellent podcast. Brian spelled B-R-I-O-N, by the way, author of many books, including how Alexander Hamilton screwed up America, and a couple of entries

in the politically incorrect guide series, politically incorrect guide to the founding fathers,

politically incorrect guide to real American heroes, also the founding father's guide to the

Constitution.

A lot of books by Brian.

He teaches at Liberty Classroom.com.

I knew back in 2012 that when I launched that site, I wanted to have

somebody with Brian's knowledge there. He has a PhD from the University of South Carolina,

where he studied under the great Clyde Wilson, just an amazing source of knowledge all around.

So this week we're going to be talking about a number of historical topics. And today we're

to talk a bit about Brian's own evolution, because I love stories like this.

But then we'll get into some other topics hitting more directly on his scholarly work. And we'll talk about, I want to ask about maybe like the best of the lesser known members of the founding generation, questions like that.

So, Brian, welcome to the show.

Well, thanks for having me, Tom. I appreciate it. I actually had some requests for Brian McClan

Week, and I had been wanting to do that. And so I thought, okay, the listeners want it. I want to do

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