Episode 20: Founding Fathers
Newt's World
Gingrich 360
4.6 • 6.4K Ratings
🗓️ 16 June 2019
⏱️ 52 minutes
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| 0:52.8 | On this episode of Newt's World, the Father's Day will be celebrating with a discussion about our nation's founding fathers. |
| 1:06.0 | I'm pleased to welcome as my guest today, Joseph J. Ellis. |
| 1:10.0 | Ellis is one of the nation's leading scholars of American history. |
| 1:13.6 | The author of nine books, Ellis was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Founding Brothers, the Revolutionary Generation, |
| 1:20.8 | and won the National Book Award for American Sphinx, a biography of Thomas Jefferson. |
| 1:26.6 | His in-depth chronicle of the life of our first president, his Excellency George Washington, was a New York Times bestseller. |
| 1:34.3 | Jonah have known each other for many years, were both historians, and both have a deep regard for George Washington, and a great love for Mount Vernon. |
| 1:42.7 | In fact, we had lunch together at Mount Vernon just over a year ago. |
| 1:46.2 | I'm pleased to welcome him as my guest. |
| 1:50.8 | I don't know anybody who has studied the key figures of the American Revolution and the founding of America from as many different angles as Dr. Ellis. |
| 2:14.8 | What got you personally into focusing on this period? |
| 2:19.5 | I got to Yale, and they got me interested in the 18th century, and I worked with Ed Morgan, who was a child in the field, and I realized at some point in time that all these editions of the papers of the founders, Washington, Franklin, Adams, Jefferson, Madison, Hamilton, |
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