Ken Burns

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The MeidasTouch Podcast · Ken Burns Discusses his New Series "The American Revolution" · 14 Nov 2025 podcast

I think you brought them up.

But at the same time, you know,

You wouldn't trade this moment to go back in the revolution.

And remember how the declaration ends.

We mutually pledge to each other our lives, our fortunes, and our sacred honor.

George Washington may be, you know, the richest, one of the richest men in America.

Can you imagine any of the richest men pledging their lives?

their fortunes and their sacred honor to a cause that's so untested and untried and he did it he spent four days at mount vernon he's either in somebody else's house that's why it's super important where george washington slept or he's in a tent for most of the six and a half years of the revolution and his officers are deserting and heading back home because they can make money uh from both sides you can play the patriot side you can pay the british side you can make money off it

And he stays.

And so do the common people who fight, the teenagers and Nerdy Wells and the second and third sons without a chance of an inheritance of those recent immigrants.

And they win the war for you and for me.

Streaming for free at pbs.org starting Sunday.

You can get the whole thing streaming if you want it for free.

Oh, I won't.

You know, I tell you, I won't work on a more important film than this one.

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