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Episode 55: The Ten-Dollar Founding Father
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It was May 12, 2009. A crowd had assembled at the White House for a program billed as “An Evening of Poetry & Music & The Spoken Word.” Barack Obama, the first Black President of the United States, and his wife Michelle, had been in residence for less than five months.
I doubt that anyone remembers who else performed that night. But the next day, the historians’ network was chattering about a skinny kid with a buzzcut, a graduate of Wesleyan University, who had recently had a more than modest success with the musical he wrote for his senior…
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