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The Death of a Monarch and a Divided Nation, with Robert Harris

Intelligence Squared

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The Puritan Revolution in America

I was fascinated by the extent to which the Puritan revolution is in the DNA of modern America. And that actually the seeds of the American War of Independence are sewn in these militias in these Puritan towns. Only people with an enormous faith in God and that they were doing God's work would have been able to endure those conditions.

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