Randa Abdel-Fattah
speaker
3,221 appearances
41 recordings
9 series
first heard Jan 2025
last heard 8 Sep
Randa Abdel-Fattah’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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We certainly haven't achieved it.
Is the idea just that we're still in the thick of it?
250 years in, and the road is still bumpy.
But the only way is forward.
Jill Lepore says we definitely wouldn't want to go back.
There's nothing romantic to me about the 18th century.
You would die in childbirth, your children would die in infancy, you would live to 24.
No.
What is really extraordinary is the capacity for the creation of beautiful work and the devising of ingenious ideas in spite of the incredible cruelty and suffering of daily living.
And today, in this anniversary year, the American melting pot of art and ideas is still resilient.
At the end, Jill Lepore left us with a lesson from those hard times when America was young.
The generosity of spirit around what it is to lift one another up is an ideal of the revolution that we very often forget and we need in this moment.
So we all bundled up and headed out into the snowy night with new insights about our history and some ideas about how to build our future together.
The last piece we're going to play of Lara's is about the song Get Happy.
It was written during a particularly painful period in our country's history.
And that's a theme Lara found in her reporting for this series.
The idea of smiling through the pain being a part of the DNA of American songs.
I've become so aware of this pain.
role that American music has always taken, of injecting that joy and that optimism.
And once you start to look at that, you realize how all of the happiest songs have honestly come from the hardest times.
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