November 18, 2021 • 52 mins
Joe talks to Pulitzer Prize-winning author Thomas Ricks on the brilliance of George Washington, the hypocrisy of the slaveholder whose Declaration freed more humans than any figure in history, how James Madison saved America from the illiberalism of Donald Trump, why General Sherman was the greatest soldier in U.S. history, and what we should learn from 20 years of military misadventures.
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