WHEN POTUS WAS A UNAIMOUS CHOICE: 2/8 Travels with George: In Search of Washi: ngton and His Legacy, by Nathaniel Philbrick.
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🗓️ 14 July 2024
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WHEN POTUS WAS A UNAIMOUS CHOICE: 2/8 Travels with George: In Search of Washi: ngton and His Legacy, by Nathaniel Philbrick.
When George Washington became president in 1789, the United States of America was still a loose and quarrelsome confederation and a tentative political experiment. Washington undertook a tour of the ex-colonies to talk to ordinary citizens about his new government, and to imbue in them the idea of being one thing—Americans.
In the fall of 2018, Nathaniel Philbrick embarked on his own journey into what Washington called “the infant woody country” to see for himself what America had become in the 229 years since. Writing in a thoughtful first person about his own adventures with his wife, Melissa, and their dog, Dora, Philbrick follows Washington’s presidential excursions: from Mount Vernon to the new capital in New York; a monthlong tour of Connecticut, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, and Rhode Island; a venture onto Long Island and eventually across Georgia, South Carolina, and North Carolina. The narrative moves smoothly between the eighteenth and twenty-first centuries as we see the country through both Washington’s and Philbrick’s eyes.
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| 0:00.0 | Oh, he's cute. Mr. I can never sleep when I'm traveling. He's hugging his pillow like a sloth on a branch. |
| 0:10.0 | He couldn't sleep before. Now listen to him. Sounds like an elephant with a chest infection. |
| 0:15.0 | Well, they call him a dreamer. And now they're right. |
| 0:19.0 | All aboard, Mr. I can never sleep when I'm traveling. |
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| 0:58.6 | See website for details. This is a new book, |
| 1:07.0 | This is CBSi in the world. I'm John Thatcher with Nathaniel Philbrick, |
| 1:10.0 | his new book, Travels with George in search of Washington and his legacy. |
| 1:15.0 | A reenactment of the inauguration, Nathaniel attended in New York one April afternoon. |
| 1:21.0 | And there are revelations here for example Genesis 49 to 50 after a |
| 1:27.6 | Washington said fetch me a Bible what's there that yes there there is you know the the 12 tribes of Israel. You know, this is this is America as a biblical imperative and you know here is George Washington saying, |
| 1:44.3 | wait a minute, I need a Bible to be sworn in. |
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