FATHER FIGURE. IN MOTION: 2/8 Travels with George: In Search of Washington and His Legacy, by Nathaniel Philbrick.
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FATHER FIGURE. IN MOTION: 2/8 Travels with George: In Search of Washington and His Legacy, by Nathaniel Philbrick.
https://www.amazon.com/Travels-George-Search-Washington-Legacy/dp/0525562176/ref=tmm_hrd_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=&sr=
When George Washington became president in 1789, the United States of America was still a loose and quarrelsome confederation and a tentative political experiment. Washington undertook a tour of the ex-colonies to talk to ordinary citizens about his new government, and to imbue in them the idea of being one thing—Americans.
In the fall of 2018, Nathaniel Philbrick embarked on his own journey into what Washington called “the infant woody country” to see for himself what America had become in the 229 years since. Writing in a thoughtful first person about his own adventures with his wife, Melissa, and their dog, Dora, Philbrick follows Washington’s presidential excursions: from Mount Vernon to the new capital in New York; a monthlong tour of Connecticut, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, and Rhode Island; a venture onto Long Island and eventually across Georgia, South Carolina, and North Carolina. The narrative moves smoothly between the eighteenth and twenty-first centuries as we see the country through both Washington’s and Philbrick’s eyes
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| 0:00.0 | Time for Diet Coke, mate. Yes, yes, yes! |
| 0:12.0 | Da-da-da-da-da-da-da! |
| 0:15.0 | I really think you're good at that. |
| 0:17.0 | Love what you love. Diet Coke. |
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| 0:35.0 | This is CBS I In The World. I'm Tom Batser with Nathaniel Filbrick. |
| 0:39.0 | His new book travels with George in search of Washington and his legacy. |
| 0:44.0 | A reenactment of the inauguration. Nathaniel attends it in New York one April afternoon. |
| 0:51.0 | And there are revelations here. For example, Genesis 49 to 50. |
| 0:56.0 | After a Washington said, fetch me a Bible. What's there, Dad? |
| 1:01.0 | Yes, there is the 12 tribes of Israel. |
| 1:06.0 | This is America as a biblical imperative. |
| 1:11.0 | And here is George Washington saying, wait a minute, I need a Bible to be sworn in. |
| 1:17.0 | They find the Bible and it's turned to this passage. |
| 1:20.0 | And this is America of biblical proportions. |
| 1:25.0 | And yet Washington is so overcome at the moment of his inauguration. |
| 1:31.0 | He's up on the second floor balcony with crowds all surrounding the building, |
| 1:37.0 | with people on the roofs, the buildings across the road. |
| 1:41.0 | And he looks out and he's dressed not in his military uniform. |
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