The fight over America’s national story | The Gray Area

Описание: Who are America’s heroes? Who deserves our admiration and a place in our nation’s story?

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In today’s episode, guest host Jonquilyn Hill talks with constitutional law professor Kermit Roosevelt about his book The Nation That Never Was: Reconstructing America’s Story, which argues that America’s most important ancestors are not the founding fathers but the heroes of Reconstruction. The two discuss the importance of founding myths, why Americans are constantly fighting over “the real America,” and what it means to be American.

Guest Host: Jonquilyn Hill, Host of Vox’s Explain It To Me podcast
Guest: Kermit Roosevelt, constitutional law professor and author of The Nation That Never Was: Reconstructing America’s Story

00:00 Intro
03:16 America’s two foundings
07:20 The fight over America’s founding myth
15:18 Why every nation needs a story
21:43 Does a national story have to be a success story?
34:06 Why are Americans so attached to their ancestors?
42:02 Will the political pendulum swing back-and-forth forever?

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