Thank God for being an American

The American Story

Christopher Flannery

Documentary, Society & Culture, History

4.6 • 941 Ratings

🗓️ 11 October 2022

⏱️ 7 minutes

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Summary

P.G. Wodehouse was one of the best writers in the English language in the 20th century and the funniest. He wrote nearly 100 delightful books, each one of which in perfectly orchestrated sentences, can make you fall laughing out of your beach chair. He became an American citizen in 1955, wrote an autobiography titled “America, I like you.” Read anything Wodehouse. You won’t regret it.

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0:00.0	Welcome to the American Story.
0:04.0	Stories about what it is that makes America beautiful.
0:07.0	Heartbreaking, funny, inspiring, and endlessly interesting.
0:13.0	This is Chris Flannering with the Claremont Institute.
0:16.0	I call this one, thank God for being an American.
0:29.6	In the hamlet of Remsenburg, Suffolk County, Long Island, New York, lies a small cemetery behind the chapel of the Remsenburg Community Church. There one finds the modest final
0:35.3	resting place of a great American,
0:40.7	marked by a substantial rectangular headstone,
0:44.3	with a large open book on top, sculpted in stone,
0:47.1	in which is inscribed from top to bottom,
0:51.4	Jeeves, Blanding's Castle,
0:53.8	leave it to Smith.
0:56.3	Meet Mr. Mulliner.
1:02.1	Beneath this on the wide headstone, you see the name of the great American.
1:05.8	Sir Pelham, Grenville, Woodhouse.
1:10.0	At the very bottom of the headstone are the words,
1:13.0	he gave joy to countless people.
1:17.4	Seldom have truer words been engraved in stone.
1:21.9	Pelham Grenville Woodhouse, plummed to his friends,
1:23.7	PG to his reading public,
1:29.3	gave joy to countless millions of people with his books, about a hundred of them,
1:32.8	written during the first 75 years of the 20th century.
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