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Indepth program. With author and historian, joanne freeman. Books include affairs of honor,o the essential hamilton, and most recently, the field of blood. Violence in congress and the road to civil war. Joanne freeman you are going to hate this opening question. Spak zero. Trace the art of our nations history from 1783, 21861, the political history. Wow. Okay, the speech. Thats a little i daunting. Tracy r. Im going to do historian thing and speak generally. I guess i would say if you are looking in american politics, from the beginning like through we could even go after the war, talking about paradoxes, and conflict. I tend to focus on is really more the early part of the ark. It is the improvisational nature of that. It is because the nation was founded in a world of monarchy. And you know the United States of republic what that means was it so clear at the moment and people knew they were trying to do something that wasntth that. So were not going to create a monarchy the presiden
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