Ken Burns

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195 appearances 1 recordings 1 series first heard Nov 2025 last heard 14 Nov

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But in order to win that war, teenagers were fighting the Continental Army.

There were second and third sons, laborers without a job.

Second and third sons without a chance of an inheritance.

Recent immigrants with no property.

And a war that began to protect the rights of property males becomes fought by people who had little or no property.

So democracy becomes part of the reward for helping the success of this.

That alone is an interesting thing.

And we also have phrases like pursuit of happiness, more perfect union.

We're a nation in the process of becoming.

This story of the revolution is the big band.

And it's an ever expanding universe.

Do we take steps back?

Yes, we do.

Does the acceleration slow?

Yes, it does.

But there are lots of ways in which the story of the revolution can give courage, can give hope, could provide optimism.

I mean, today, optimism is looked at as a kind of naive and pejorative condition.

But jadedness and snark, I mean, jadedness is only for journalists and jet setters, it seems to me.

And that you got to be a citizen and citizen is actively engaged in reminding people what the American project has been about.

Good and bad.

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