The latest installment of an ongoing interview series with contributing editor Mark Bauerlein. Michael Barone joins the podcast to discuss his new book Mental Maps of the Founders: How Geographic Imagination Guided America’s Revolutionary Leaders.
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Music by Jack Bauerlein.
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