We the people podcast and i cant wait to share her work and her insights with you. Lindsay, welcome to americas town hall. Thank you so much for having me. And Edward Larsen holds the hue and hazel darling chair in law and is University Professor of history at pepperdine university, he is a recipient of the Pulitzer Prize in history and coauthor of 14 books, several of them on George Washington and the founders and his newest book is franklin and washington, the founding partnership. It is great to welcome you to the National Constitution center. Thanks for having me back if only virtually. Well it is just great. And im so eager to learn from both of you and with both of you in the spirit of louie brandize, let us reason together, let the learning begin. Okay. Ed, lets begin with you because you have this powerful pairing of the two founders you consider the first among the founders, washington and franklin. You note that they are labelled first and second in the most famous portrait o
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I dont think anyone can. Hello, are these on . So much for joining us for this panel. If you want to take a moment to silence your cellphones it would be much appreciated. Thanks so much for joining us. My name is nateblakeslee, ill be your moderator. For ben westhoff book which is called Fentanyl Incorporated how rogue chemists are treating the deadliest waveof the opioid epidemic. Its my pleasure to introduce then. Then is an awardwinning Investigative Reporter who has written several books. Two of which were about the history of rap music, ben was once the music editor for the la weekly both those books were well received as ive been this book. Ben was featured on fresh air as im sure a number of you, this is a fresh haircut and the crowd probably. It was also accepted in the atlantic and has gotten wonderful reviews so help me thank ben for coming to austin texas. Ben and i will discuss the books for probably about 30 minutes and then if anyone wants to leave 15 minutes for q a sop
Because of that, its a particularly good point in this course to talk about a big issue that goes throughout the civil war that we need to look at a e antebellum. The question is the United States constitution. One thing historians have been asking for generations about the constitution and the civil war area, a basic question is to what degree did the constitution shape the civil war area . What to what degree did it make political actors do certain things . Constrain them. Or guide their actions. On the flip side to what degree did the civil war era shape the constitution . Some of this is very clear in the 13th, 14th and 15th amendments. Changed the constitution. Also different views of the constitution. One of the things that people have looked at in looking back at the u. S. Constitution during the civil war era is how president s have interacted with the constitution. Have they followed it . Have they tried to defend it . Have they abridged the constitution . This shapes how many
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