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Federalist Radio Hour

The 'Geographic Imagination' Of America's Founders

Federalist Radio Hour

Radio America

News, News Commentary, Politics

4.53.3K Ratings

🗓️ 8 December 2023

⏱️ 47 minutes

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Summary

On this episode of "The Federalist Radio Hour," Michael Barone, a senior political analyst for the Washington Examiner and a senior fellow emeritus at the American Enterprise Institute, joins Federalist Culture Editor Emily Jashinsky to discuss how the Founding Fathers used "geographic imagination" to determine the future boundaries of the constitutional republic and explain the differences between several of their visions.

You can find Barone's book "Mental Maps of the Founders: How Geographic Imagination Guided America's Revolutionary Leaders" here.

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Culture Editor here at the Federalist.ist as always you can email the show at

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subscribe wherever you download your podcasts and you can subscribe to the premium version of our

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website over at the Federalist.com as well. Today we are joined by Michael

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Barone. Michael Barone is a senior political analyst for the Washington Examiner and a resident fellow at the American Enterprise Institute.

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He's also the author of the new book, Mental Maps of the Founders,

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how geographic imagination guided America's revolutionary leadership.

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Michael, thank you so much for joining us.

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Well, it's good to be with you. Thank you for having me.

1:30.4

We assign your work to our young reporters when they go out and do campaign reporting.

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So it's a real pleasure to talk to you Michael.

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Oh goodness.

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That's a big responsibility.

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Oh, but it's important, it's so important and so helpful.

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But in this book, I'm really curious actually just as to how it came to be.

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