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Ken Burns on America at 250: The Revolution, Patriotism, Baseball and the Fight for Democracy.
July 4th is two days away. America is turning 250. And there is nobody we’d rather hear from right now than America’s historian, Ken Burns.
Paul Rieckhoff is taking a couple days off at the beach with the kids, so we’re replaying one of our all-time favorite Independent Americans conversations. Ken Burns joins Paul for a sweeping, urgent, deeply American talk about the Revolution, George Washington, baseball, real patriotism, Congress abdicating its constitutional duty, the danger of “us vs. them,” and why the American experiment is still worth fighting for.
It’s history. It’s democracy. It’s…
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