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You're listening to the Dennis Prager Show, and I have an author about America's favorite subject.

And that is George Washington. The number of books on George Washington, I am certain, could fill a small library.

Must be thousands and thousands of them, and deservedly so.

But this is different, otherwise I wouldn't have had the author on.

It is called Blood of Tyrants, George Washington and the Forging of the Presidency, and it is a look

at George Washington and the times in which he lived, which is real.

I think that perhaps that's the best word to use to describe it.

The author is Logan Byrne, and that is spelled B-E-I-R-N-E.

Logan Byrne is an Olin scholar at Yale Law School.

Prior to the broadcast, I asked him what that meant, and that is Yale Law School, pays him to do research and writing,

and I told him that was the second best job in America. The first is shortstop with the Red Sox. Are you a Red Sox or a Yankee fan? I'm afraid to say. Oh, no, you don't have to be afraid with me. I don't like either of them. I'm a Yankees fan. My father's from the Bronx. I'd be disowned if I wasn't. All right, fine. There's no problem in that. You, on the contrary, it shows that you adhere to the biblical

admonition to honor your father and mother, unless your mother were a Red Sox fan, and then it would be

very difficult. That would have definitely problem. That would be a telemetic issue for another time. It is a pleasure to have you,

Logan Byrne. I ask authors all the time, why did you write the book? Take a minute. Why did you write

the book? So I wrote the book basically because I needed to write something to graduate from law school.

So back in 2005,

I was at Yale Law as a student, and you need to write what they call an SAW. It's basically a thesis

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