Who’s Your Founding Father? with David Fleming

Here's Where It Gets Interesting

Sharon McMahon

Government, History, Storytelling, Education

4.9 • 15.1K Ratings

🗓️ 26 February 2024

⏱️ 43 minutes

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Are you ready to question what you know about America’s founding? Today’s guest, David Fleming, shares all about a delicious slice of history in his new book, “Who’s Your Founding Father?” We dive into the Mecklenburg Declaration of Independence, a conspiracy theory, and possible plagiarism surrounding one of the most important documents in U.S. history. How do the ultimate frenemies, Thomas Jefferson and John Adams, tie into this? Join us to find out.

Special thanks to our guest, David Fleming, for joining us today.

Host/ Executive Producer: Sharon McMahon

Audio Producer: Jenny Snyder

Production Coordinator: Andrea Champoux

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0:00.0	Hello, friends. Welcome, I've betrayed for you today. I am chatting with David Fleming and he is written in book that is probably going to up and everything you know about America's founding. And that is not an
0:17.1	overstatement. His book is called Who's Your Founding Father? And if you've not heard of the Mecklenburg Declaration,
0:24.7	yet stay tuned, there's a whole conspiracy,
0:27.3	there is plagiarism, let's dive in.
0:35.6	I'm Sharon McMahon, and here's where it gets interesting.
0:42.0	Well, I'm really excited to be chatting with Dave Fleming today. Your book title is super catchy.
0:42.6	Who's your founding father?
0:44.4	You like that?
0:45.2	I knew that I had found the right publisher when they were like,
0:48.1	oh, we absolutely have to keep that title.
0:50.1	So I knew it had found the right home when they were like, oh, we get it, we get it.
0:54.1	Yeah, totally.
0:55.2	Tiling a book is actually no small feat.
0:58.6	It's obviously about the founding fathers, but there's a sense of humor to it and there's a
1:03.7	question mark like who really are your founding fathers I just loved yeah I just I
1:09.0	love the title of the book because it really kind of it says it all right there.
1:13.0	And you really do get the sense of humor aspect when you open the first page and the
1:17.7	opening story is about Dunkin Donuts and tourists from Minnesota and their hocas like, oh, which direction should we head now?
1:27.2	I always love it when people can approach history, not with a sense of a sense of
1:33.7	a sense of facts, but of a, you know,
1:36.2	with a sense of humor.
1:37.4	People at the time had senses of humor.
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