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The Tom Woods Show

Ep. 479 What Should We Think About Calhoun?

The Tom Woods Show

Tom Woods

Politics, Government, News

4.83.4K Ratings

🗓️ 31 August 2015

⏱️ 39 minutes

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Summary

Did John C. Calhoun have anything of value to say, or is his entire career too stained by slavery for him to be worth listening to? I discuss Calhoun, Robert Taft, Calvin Coolidge, Grover Cleveland, and more in today's episode.

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The Tom Woods Show, episode 479.

0:03.8

Prepare to set fire to the index card of allowable opinion.

0:08.5

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0:44.1

woods.com slash publicity hey everybody tom woods here talking about john c calhoun a little bit today

0:51.3

but not just about him i want to talk about a book that I read not

0:56.2

too long ago. I finally have time to write articles again. You remember I pretty much stopped doing

1:01.7

everything other than the show while I was working on the Ron Paul curriculum courses. But now that

1:07.2

that's behind me, I actually have time to do things once again. So when Dan McCarthy of the American Conservative magazine asked if I would review a book that

1:15.8

looked sort of interesting to me, and it wasn't a terribly long book, I said, well, what the

1:19.1

heck? I'll dive right back into writing articles. So I have an article in the current issue of

1:23.4

the American Conservative magazine, September October 2015. It's also available on the website,

1:29.2

and naturally, what else? Of course, I'm going to link to it on today's show notes page,

1:34.1

which is tomwoods.com slash 479. The book is called conservative heroes, 14 leaders who shaped America

1:42.9

from Jefferson to Reagan, by somebody named Garland S. Tucker the 3rd.

1:48.1

I know nothing about him.

1:50.7

And now, of course, the subtitle leads to a lot of other questions, including Jefferson among conservatives, is a controversial placement.

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