CSPAN2 National Book Festival - Jon Meacham His Truth Is Marching On July 11, 2024
One of the things that is here in American Life and letters is the use of reason. In many ways however incomplete or unfinished it was about putting reason at the center of our national experience. If you think about what is unfolding. Heading into philadelphia in 1776. It had been a story of a reorienting the world from being seen as vertical. With an incident of election were given authority over all of us. You have the european enlightenment. You have the protestant reformations. In entire reorientation of the world not complete at the beginning of that shift. When they sat down in the last...