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Fox News Podcasts presents the Brett Bear Podcasts with Fox News Chief Political Anchor, Brett Bear.

For my new book coming out in June ahead of the 250th anniversary of the country called The Case for America,

I traveled the country asking people one simple question, what makes this country

worth it? I recently sat down with Douglas Brinkley. He's an historian and professor over at

Rice University to get his take on our national identity. Here's our full conversation.

So this is part of a project I've been working on for a while. It's the case for America.

It's a bunch of interviews, but it's also tapping into all the stuff I've done with the

six biographies.

But it's business people, it's historians, yourself, it's a number of different leaders,

you know, Kandi Rites and others, talking about if you're making the case for America as we get

ready for this 250th, you know, what that feels like, looks like.

The founders obviously often spoke of the virtue, of of virtue being a key component in free society.

In particular, they spoke of civic virtue.

Why is that an idea that's significant, do you think, for America?

Whenever I teach presidential history, I like to begin with George Washington at 14 years old, where he actually recorded in his handwriting

110 ideas of what civility should be. And it's important not just because he did this when he was 14,

and he was building on philosophy and, you know, Jesuit thinking actually. But it's important because he kept it with them his whole life.

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