Episode 661: Michael Barone on The Founders
Newt's World
Gingrich 360
4.6 • 6.4K Ratings
🗓️ 10 February 2024
⏱️ 38 minutes
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Michael Barone, a senior political analyst for the Washington Examiner, discusses his new book, "Mental Maps of the Founders: How Geographic Imagination Guided America's Revolutionary Leaders". The book explores the geographic orientation and mental maps of six of the founders: Franklin, Washington, Jefferson, Hamilton, Madison, and Gallatin. Barone explains how these mental maps helped shape the young republic whose geographical features and political boundaries were yet unknown. He also discusses the changes in American politics since he started writing for the Almanac in 1972, and how the political landscape has become more nationalized.
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| 0:56.1 | orientation, the mental maps of six of the founders, Franklin, Washington, Jefferson, Hamilton, Madison, and Gallatin. |
| 1:05.6 | Three were Virginians who vowed to expand their new nation toward different points of the |
| 1:11.3 | compass. |
| 1:12.3 | One, a refugee from Puritan, Boston to more tolerant Philadelphia |
| 1:17.0 | built a commercial and journalistic empire spanning seaboard colonies |
| 1:22.0 | and the West Indies. |
| 1:23.4 | Two came from buzzing commercial ports of glaringly different character. |
| 1:28.6 | The Sugar and Slave Island of San Croix in the Caribbean and the Stern Swiss Calvinistic city state of Geneva. |
| 1:36.5 | The Founders' Mento Maps helped develop the contours and character of a young republic whose |
| 1:42.0 | geographical features and political boundaries were yet |
| 1:45.0 | unknown. Here to discuss his new book, I'm really pleased to welcome my guest, my |
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