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Aloha, namaste, and welcome to Impolitic with John Heilman, a puck and odyssey joint.

And as you may have noticed, we have spent much of the past two weeks talking about matters of war

and peace, specifically and sort of inevitably, when it comes to Donald Trump's War of Choice,

or maybe as one Democratic Senator recently dubbed it, his War of Wim, in Iran.

Well, today we are going to be talking again about matters martial, but not in the Middle East,

and said our topic is an older war, a war that didn't presume to make America great again,

but that made America great in the first place, that in fact made America America 250 years ago.

And of course, the war that I'm talking about is the American Revolution.

Now, you might assume that we are simply getting a jump on the impending celebration this July 4th

of the semi-quincennial anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of Independence.

But as much sense as that assumption might make, it is not the case, sports fans.

Instead, the reason that we're talking about a revolution today is because our guest is my friend Ken Burns,

who a few months ago unveiled on PBS his latest documentary series, a six-part 12-hour

blockbuster entitled The American Revolution, which may be the greatest of his multitude of

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