
Ep. 540 — Jon Meacham
The Axe Files with David Axelrod
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The Rise and Fall of Lincoln
Lincoln had, the advantage that Lincoln had was he, you know, we, the country was relatively new. He summoned the spirit of the revolution and the spirit of 1776 in his, in his own rhetoric. The war as a test of whether self governance was possible in the way that the founders imagined it. But let's take this in, in stages because there's so much here. I'm sorry about that. You're in my head, man.
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