Father of Our Country
Dennis Prager Podcasts
Salem Podcast Network
4.5 • 2.2K Ratings
🗓️ 4 July 2023
⏱️ 77 minutes
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Summary
Dennis talks to Paul Johnson, renowned British historian. His new book is George Washington: The Founding Father. A Best of Prager Hour. Originally broadcast June 16, 2005. Dennis talks to John Ferling, professor emeritus of history at the University of West Georgia. His new book is Jefferson and Hamilton: The Rivalry That Forged a Nation. A Best of Prager Hour. Originally broadcast on December 17, 2013. Dennis talks to Fred Kaplan, professor of English at Queens College. His new book is John Quincy Adams: American Visionary. A Best of Prager Hour. Originally broadcast on May 23, 2014. Thanks for listening to the Daily Dennis Prager Podcast. To hear the entire three hours of my radio show as a podcast, commercial-free every single day, become a member of Pragertopia. You’ll also get access to 15 years’ worth of archives, as well as daily show prep. Subscribe today at Pragertopia dot com.
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| 0:00.0 | Dennis Prager here. Thanks for listening to the Daily Dennis Prager podcast to hear the entire |
| 0:05.9 | three hours of my radio show commercial free every single day become a member of Prager Topia. |
| 0:13.4 | You'll also get access to 15 years worth of archives as well as the Daily Show Prep. |
| 0:20.0 | Subscribe at PragerTopia.com. |
| 0:24.1 | Alrighty everybody welcome to the Dennis Prager show. |
| 0:29.6 | About twice a year I embarrassed this man across the Atlantic by praising him so highly |
| 0:38.5 | that it takes him about half a year to recuperate. |
| 0:45.2 | From the laugh I guess you recuperate faster than I then I'm a sous vide. |
| 0:49.8 | He is Paul Johnson one of the absolute eminent thinkers and historians living on this planet at |
| 0:58.0 | this time and I don't want to gush beyond that lest I overwhelm all of us but it is truly I think |
| 1:06.4 | everybody knows my voice and my listeners do an honor for me to always have you on and you've |
| 1:12.2 | now written yet another wonderful book George Washington The Founding Father and I always |
| 1:18.9 | love it when you write about American topics because you bring to it the outsider's clarity |
| 1:24.6 | and yet a deep love and admiration for the American experiment. |
| 1:30.4 | Is that a fair way of explaining you and America? |
| 1:34.4 | Well yes I think it is. You see my publishers in New York said to me we discover young people |
| 1:43.9 | today don't know enough about George Washington and we think the reason is that the books about |
| 1:52.7 | Washington are so long many of them in multi-volume shape. Do you think you could do George Washington |
| 2:00.8 | for us in 40,000 words? So I agreed to do it and I did it and this is the book. |
| 2:08.6 | I might add forgive me for this because this is one of my |
| 2:13.2 | standing on a chair and just screaming my guts out but I believe that that is a major problem. |
| 2:19.6 | Length of books has been a major problem in alienating people from required information for some |
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