Craig Fehrman
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first heard Jun 2026
last heard 1 Jun
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It's just such a great story.
And it was like the thrill of my career to get to write about it.
I'm sure that some people believe that he may have been murdered.
I don't see it.
Well, and this is, this is where I found something new that I think is really important.
When I wrote about Lewis, I tried really hard not to be like, he has bipolar disorder or he has PTSD.
Cause like those were not ideas back then.
I'm not saying the neurochemical processes didn't exist, but I don't think it's helpful to understand somebody in the past with ideas that were not necessarily available in the past.
So like Jefferson and Lewis lived together for years and Jefferson was like,
He suffers with addiction, and he has, Jefferson's quote, with sensible depressions of mind.
So to me, I was like, that's enough.
What kind of addiction?
Mostly drinking, but also opium because he had malaria.
Where do you pick up malaria?
Who knows?
Where wouldn't you pick up malaria in 1804, right?
It was a real problem back then, so it could have been any number.
It might have been on the expedition, but it was probably before.
Did it go that far north?
it was, it was, it was a huge problem, especially in the army because they would often like build their forts in, in pretty swampy, damp areas.
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