Ken Burns

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

sort of ignoring the dialectic, which is the enemy of anything, right?

We know this in our personal lives.

We know this in our love.

We know this in our art and our literature.

One and one equals three.

Our faith, one and one equals three.

You can't build a bridge or airplane without one and one always equaling two.

But the thing we look for, the whole is greater than the sum of the parts.

Here's the whole.

Here are the sum of the parts.

What's this?

That's why I make films about it.

that ken can we watch the trailer together i want people to be able to see it before you go because i think the trailer is so powerful yeah sure sure i just want to say i didn't edit this this is bbs pulling from our our 12-hour film all right let's play ark kindled in america a flame has arisen not to be extinguished

And she goes on and says, even those people who lack the ownership of themselves on either side has something to believe in.

Because these arguments between Brits suddenly get...

blown out into transcendent liberties.

And that's where the, why these people would continue fighting against all odds against one of the great military powers on earth, certainly the greatest Navy on the, on the, on the face of the globe and to win.

and six and a half long, bloody years is just as... And Washington, who's the most important person, we don't have a country without him, for all his flaws and all of his rashness and all of his bad tactical mistakes he makes throughout it, nonetheless, is the person who convinces people that you're not a Georgian, you're not

New Hampshire, right?

You're an American, this new thing.

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