Episode 230 || Seasonal Reads: America

From the Front Porch

The Bookshelf Thomasville

Fiction, Society & Culture, Books, Arts:books, Arts

4.7 • 1.2K Ratings

🗓️ 4 July 2019

⏱️ 35 minutes

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As the heat settles and the mosquitos start biting and we all converge in the back of a pickup truck in an antique store parking lot to watch the fireworks, we hope you'll take the time to join us for a conversation on books about what our nation is, has been, and could be. Happy Independence Day. https://www.raicestexas.org/donate/ You can find all of the following books for sale (or preorder) in The Bookshelf's online store. + Democracy in America by Alexis de Tocqueville + Signing Their Lives Away and Signing Their Rights Away by Denise Kiernan and Joseph D'Agnese + I Think You're Wrong, But I'm Listening by Sarah Stewart Holland and Beth A. Shivers + A Sin By Any Other Name by Robert W. Lee + We Were 8 Years in Powerby Ta-Nehisi Coates + The Soul of America by Jon Meacham + Americanah by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie + Rise and Fall by Mitchell Zuckoff + Impeachment: An American History by Jeffrey A. Engel, Jon Meacham, Timothy Naftali, and Peter Baker + Parkland by Dave Cullen + Dissent and the Supreme Court by Melvin Urofsky + Songs of America by Jon Meacham and Tim McGraw Thanks, as always, to Forlorn Strangers for the use of our theme music. Learn and listen more here. Listen to a full back catalogue of our show here, and, if you're interested in some exclusive content like Chris and Annie's Unpopular Opinions, consider supporting us on Patreon here.

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0:00.0	So it's the 4th of July.
0:02.6	Fourth of July.
0:03.6	Hey, and great.
0:06.0	Happy 4th of July.
0:07.3	We go with our good friends every year on a trip of some kind.
0:11.8	Trip is probably too generous a word.
0:14.1	Like one time we went to Mobile and one time we went to Sarasota.
0:17.1	This year we're going to Montgomery.
0:18.5	Okay.
0:19.3	Which is kind of like going home for me.
0:20.8	Yeah. But we're going because, well, I mean, we're going to Montgomery. Okay. Um, which is kind of like going home for me. Yeah. Um, but we're going because, well, I mean, we're going to a Montgomery biscuits game
0:26.6	on July 4th. That's fine. I don't know what that is. That's a minor league baseball team called
0:31.4	the biscuits. Okay. And they throw biscuits out at you. Oh. It's great. I went to college there.
0:36.2	Um, um, but why we're really going is because the equal justice at you. Oh. It's great. I went to college there.
0:44.5	But why we're really going is because the Equal Justice Initiative has a memorial and museum dedicated to civil rights and the history of lynchings in America.
0:48.0	Oh, okay.
0:48.6	And we decided it's time to reflect.
0:53.7	What a great time. Yes. To reflect on America and her many many flaws
0:59.5	and so yeah so we're going to a baseball game on the fourth because as you do and then we're
1:05.5	going to the museum on the fifth so I'm actually really excited it's something I wanted to do for a
1:10.8	long time and we haven't been able to get up there. That's great. I'm really glad you're able to do that. Is it too hot of a take to say that I hate when people say like, this isn't who we are? I don't think that's a hot take. I think that's a good take.
1:28.9	Because it is who we are.
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