You're going to go. And we are back with another edition of The Federalist Radio Hour. I'm Matt Kittel's Senior Elections Correspondent at The Federalist and your

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I'm joined today by John Burlow, a senior fellow and director of finance policy at

the Competitive Enterprise Institute.

He's also author of George Washington entrepreneur,

how our founding fathers, private business pursuits,

changed America and the world on this founding generation as we celebrate the nation's

248th birthday today.

John, welcome to the Federalist Radio Hour Podcast.

Thank you for having me, Matt.

It's a pleasure to be on the Federalist Radio Hour

our podcast and talk about my book George Washington entrepreneur.

Well I'm so glad to have you on as you know this is our Independence Day special

and I wanted to really focus on, which is often unfortunately in this day and age in this America, in this republic, if indeed we can keep it often lost in the conversation is the

founding generation and what they went through to make this promise of

liberty this shining city on the hill for all of the world I still believe in despite

the tearing down of the left that's constant by the left that's constantly gone on in this country, certainly in recent years.

But let's start off with George Washington, the man, the person, how he became the George Washington we know.

Obviously, we know there's a legend surrounding the first

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