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I hope you will join me today on the American Revolution podcast. I think of him sometimes in terms of the TV character

Colombo who seemed bumbling at first and until he'd figured out what it was that he wanted to ask and then he

pinned it down and Henry had this started slow until he got a sense of the audience

and the listeners and then and then there was a point where he would prop his glasses up on his forehead and his

friends referred to this as the war can't and all of a sudden he would go from just ordinary discourse to his transcendent oratory and it was apparently really something amazing to experience. Oh, John Kukla has directed research and publishing at the Library of Virginia and directed the historic New Orleans collection and the Red Hill, the Patrick Henry National Memorial in Charlotte County, Virginia.

He is the author of Mr. Jefferson's Women and A Wilderness

So Amense, the Louisiana Purchase and the Destiny of America, as well as many scholarly

articles and reviews.

He has held research fellowships in the British Museum,

the Virginia Historical Society,

and the International Center for Jefferson Studies at Montecello and has been a distinguished

lecturer for the Organization of American Historians. He is here to discuss his

book Patrick Henry Champion of Liberty.

John, thanks for coming on the podcast.

Delighted to be here.

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