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Jeffersonian is we wake up one morning and say, let's solve these problems.ĭS: 01:47 Yeah, you know, I, I go back to this line I pulled out of his introduction, which is, "Indeed, if I read the founders right, their greatest legacy is the recognition that argument itself is the answer. And that again breaks my heart to think that crisis is going to be required to pull us out of the morass that we're in. And I think that he wrote this out of a sense of urgency and he says in the interview today that we cannot recover as a nation without a fundamental crisis. He probably has some more books in him, but he also, you could hear it in his voice is deeply, deeply troubled by what's happening to this country and he thinks maybe the founding fathers can help illuminate this. He is is toward the end of a very, very distinguished career. And he wrote this book because - it's kind of a summing up in a certain way. We get a ton of mail when he's on and people say, we like that scholar.ĬSJ: 00:58 He's got a new book. He always has been in a certain senseĬSJ: 00:49 He's so interesting. And he said, David, you should wear that like a badge of honor.ĬSJ: 00:42 He's becoming an Adamsite, Joseph Ellis. Jenkinson: 00:07 Because we have, um, one of my oldest friends and now your dear friend, Dr Joseph Ellis, formerly of Mount Holyoke, one of the supreme historians of the early national period in American life.ĭS: 00:18 You know, I talked to him early a couple of days ago before the show, you know what he told me?ĭS: 00:22 I talked to him about, uh, about Adams and you occasionally accusing me of being an Adamsite, which I think he even wondered if that word existed as a descriptor and told him about Crisler's portrait. We're, we're pretty excited about itĬlay S. David Swenson: 00:00 Good Day, Thomas Jefferson Hour podcast listeners, and welcome to this week's show.