John Irwin
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first heard Jun 2026
last heard 30 Jun
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But Fairfax was Washington's first real patron, kind of like the
the gate he walked through.
And Fairfax, that would have been like the rich people living down the road, Washington would have been that kid down the street, you know, and they would have known about him.
But there's a scene in Fairfax's library and he had three thousand books.
He called them his true tenants.
Washington breaks into his house.
Yeah, exactly.
Crashes a party.
Crashes a party.
Yeah.
Right?
And and that would basically leaves with books.
And leaves with with a gig to go survey Fairfax's land.
But also with the books and and the books that he got on surveying he actually got from Fairfax's cousin and so
What you see with Washington is a guy that whose education was denied him very early, and he became incredibly curious and incredible student and reader.
Voracious.
And and voracious reader.
And one of the things that you don't think about the American Revolution and why it worked when most revolutions don't.
Um
Our founding fathers, it was a war of words as much as it was a war of they you want to talk about some of the great writers.
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