Episode 11: 250 Series, Douglass Adair, "Jeffersonian Democracy," 1943
In this episode, Marie and Rob discuss the towering legacy of Douglass Adair's 1943 dissertation that launched the Republican Synthesis understanding of the American founding. We highlight his Madison partisanship, his treatment of Hamilton as a reactionary, and how the founders' shared understanding of Aristotle and Thucydides had scarred them. If you want to understand why you (probably) understand the Founding the way that you do, you need to need to listen to this episode.
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