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#1595 The Solar Eclipse of 2024 50:30

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Clay Jenkinson joins his friend Dennis McKenna in Chaco Canyon in northwestern New Mexico to observe the solar eclipse on April 8, 2024. Chaco Canyon dates to at least the ninth century CE, more than a thousand years ago, and somehow their skywatchers know how to observe equinoxes, solstices, and eclipses. What better place to see the solar eclipse…

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#1594 Live from Oklahoma 50:31

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In this special edition program, Listening to America records in front of a live audience at Northwestern Oklahoma State University in Alva, Oklahoma. Clay Jenkinson and Professor of Political Science Dr. Aaron Mason focus their conversation on Thomas Jefferson and his influence on the American West. Dr. Mason is also co-executive director of the N…

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#1593 The LTA Survey and American Reflections 51:33

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Listen in on Clay Jenkinson’s conversation with media consultants Luke Peterson and Riki Conrey of Washington, DC. Luke distributed a survey based on our questions about America at 250 and 2,700 people responded. Some survey results are discussed, but also the question of how exactly does Clay or anyone else go out to listen to America? How do you …

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#1592 Geert Mak and John Steinbeck’s Travels with Charley 58:27

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Clay Jenkinson’s interview with the distinguished Dutch journalist Geert Mak, the author of In Europe, and also In America: Travels with John Steinbeck. In 2010 Geert Mak and his wife retraced the entire Steinbeck journey in a rented Jeep. After he returned to the Netherlands, Mak wrote a 550-page account of his travels. Though Steinbeck isn’t the …

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#1591 The Election of 2024 and the Constitution 55:58

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Clay Jenkinson and regular guest Dr. Lindsay Chervinsky talk about the ways in which the Constitution of the United States is impeding and even preventing good government, with a particular focus on the coming election of 2024. Topics include the need for a uniform national election procedures act; the many problems of the Electoral College; and th…

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#1590 Ten Things: The Jefferson-Adams Correspondence 59:59

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Clay Jenkinson is joined by regular guest Dr. Lindsay Chervinsky to discuss the extraordinary correspondence between former Presidents Thomas Jefferson and John Adams. Between 1812 and 1826, they exchanged 158 letters, thought by historians to be the finest correspondence in American history. They wrote about their political visions and disagreemen…

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#1589 Loss of Respect for American Institutions 1:03:17

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Clay Jenkinson interviews Dr. Henry Brady of the University of California at Berkeley about loss of respect for sixteen American institutions, some public, and some private: the police, the church, the Supreme Court, Higher Education, the FBI, the presidency, and, of course Congress. How did we lose faith? Has there been moral and ethical slippage …

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#1588 Presidential Norms 1:07:27

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Guest host David Horton of Virginia leads a discussion with Clay Jenkinson about the difference between Constitutional requirements and what are called presidential norms. George Washington, for example, did not shake hands with the American people. He held formal levees once a week. Jefferson regarded those as monarchical habits and he performed a…

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#1587 The Sad History of Executive Orders 50:40

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Clay Jenkinson and guest host David Horton discuss the history of executive orders. Even though they are not authorized by the U.S. Constitution, every president except William Henry Harrison has issued at least one. David and Clay review the most important executive orders in American history: the Emancipation Proclamation in 1863; the Japanese in…

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#1586 Ten Things on Margaret Bayard Smith 59:25

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Clay Jenkinson is joined by regular contributor Dr. Lindsay Chervinsky for a spirited conversation about Margaret Bayard Smith, one of Thomas Jefferson’s greatest admirers. Mrs. Smith, who was 35 years younger than Jefferson, was the wife of the editor of the National Intelligencer, the first Washington, D.C. newspaper. Her letters and journals, pr…

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#1585 Ten Things About John Randolph of Roanoke 50:31

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Clay Jenkinson is joined by regular guest Dr. Lindsay Chervinsky to talk about one of the strangest and most extraordinary people of America’s Early National Period, John Randolph of Roanoke, Virginia. Randolph was a brilliant and flamboyant man, hairless with the voice of a soprano and locked physically in a pre-pubescent state. Yet he was a brill…

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#1584 The Red Barber Program 52:44

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Clay is joined by Dr. Kurt Kemper of Dakota State University in Madison, South Dakota, and our west coast Enlightenment correspondent David Nicandri. Both are deeply interested in American sports, both for the sport per se, but also for the window they provide on the larger dynamics of American life. This week’s topics: outsized college coach salar…

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#1583 College Football as Cultural Lens 59:42

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Clay is joined by two guests, David Nicandri the West Coast Enlightenment correspondent for Listening to America and Dr. Kurt Kemper of Dakota State University in Madison, South Dakota. Kemper is the author of College Football and American Culture in the Cold War Era. Kemper and Nicandri believe that larger themes in American culture find expressio…

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#1582 On the Trail of John Steinbeck 59:07

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This week on Listening to America, Clay Jenkinson’s follow-up conversation with Russ Eagle of Salisbury, North Carolina, about following the trail of John Steinbeck. Russ is a former high school teacher and administrator with a vast love of the writer. After his report on the arrival of Steinbeck’s heralded boat, the Western Flyer, in Monterey, we …

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#1581 Henry Wallace and the World That Might Have Been 58:12

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Clay talks with Jeremy Gill of Hays, Kansas, about former Vice President Henry Wallace. Wallace served several presidential administrations, some Republican but more Democrat. He was FDR’s New Deal Secretary of Agriculture, then FDR’s vice president in his third term, 1940-1944. The Democrats dropped Wallace as too radical in 1944, nominating Harry…

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#1580 Ten Things about the Hamilton-Jefferson Relationship 59:15

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This week on Listening to America, Clay’s conversation with Dr. Lindsay Chervinsky about two of the greatest of the Founders, Thomas Jefferson and Alexander Hamilton. Jefferson knew of Hamilton’s war heroics and his importance as aide-de-camp to George Washington, but he didn’t actually meet Hamilton until the spring of 1790 when they were two of t…

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#1579 The Holiday Show 44:07

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Clay checks in with a few of his favorite Listening to America guests to hear about their own holiday traditions and their New Year's resolutions. Guests include David Nicandri, Beau Wright, and Brad Crisler.

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#1578 Edward S. Curtis and the North American Indian 59:58

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This week on Listening to America, Clay Jenkinson interviews professional photographers John and Coleen Graybill of Buena Vista, Colorado, about the life and achievement of Edward S. Curtis. Curtis took 40,000 dry glass plate photographs of Native Americans between 1900 and 1935, and published 20 volumes of his portraits, landscape photographs, mus…

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#1577 The Listening to America Origin Story 59:06

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This week, Clay Jenkinson’s conversation with occasional guest host David Horton about the origins of the Thomas Jefferson Hour and the purpose of changing the name and focus of the program to Listening to America. Clay sings the praises of two hosts, Bill Crystal, now of Virginia, and David Swenson of Makoche Recording Studios in Bismarck, North D…

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#1576 Ten Things About the Louisiana Purchase 1:04:47

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This week on Listening to America, Clay Jenkinson’s conversation with regular guest Dr. Lindsay Chervinsky: Ten Things about the Louisiana Purchase. In the spring of 1803 Napoleon sold the entire Louisiana Territory to the United States for three cents per acre. At 525 million acres, or 828,000 square miles, it was the greatest land sale in human h…

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#1575 Mind the Gap: Between Presidential Administrations 57:51

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This week, Clay Jenkinson’s conversation with guest host David Horton about three remarkable moments in American history between administrations. First, the tragedy of Meriwether Lewis, who got caught between the outgoing administration of his mentor Thomas Jefferson and the incoming administration of President James Madison, who was no admirer of …

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#1574 John Steinbeck and the Western Flyer 56:49

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This week, Clay Jenkinson’s conversation with fellow Steinbeck scholar Russ Eagle of North Carolina about the relaunch of the Western Flyer, the boat that took Steinbeck, Ed Ricketts, Steinbeck’s wife Carol, and four others to the Sea of Cortez in the spring of 1940. After eighty years the Western Flyer has been completely refurbished and now takes…

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#1573 Overrated and Underrated Presidents 58:08

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Clay Jenkinson is joined by regular guests Lindsay Chervinsky and David Nicandri to discuss the most overrated and underrated Presidents in American history, present company excluded. We evaluate the 46 presidencies, not the overall character or achievement. Woodrow Wilson does not fare well, but Richard Nixon has considerable support, in spite of …

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#1572 Ten Things: The Post-Civil War Amendments 58:01

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This week, Clay’s conversation with favorite guest Dr. Lindsay Chervinsky about the 13th, 14th, and 15th Amendments to the U.S. Constitution. All ratified between December 1865 and February 1870, these three key amendments are in some respects the second founding of the United States. The 13th Amendment abolished slavery. The 14th insisted on equal…

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#1571 A Conversation With David Nicandri 1:08:06

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This week, Clay’s conversation with Enlightenment correspondent David Nicandri about four subjects: Ken Burns’ documentary on the buffalo; the solar eclipse of Saturday, October 15; a new book by former Secret Service Agent Paul Landis about the Kennedy assassination — Landis actually tampered with the evidence in the presidential limo, and now, at…

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#1595 The Solar Eclipse of 2024 50:30

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#1594 Live from Oklahoma 50:31

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#1593 The LTA Survey and American Reflections 51:33

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#1592 Geert Mak and John Steinbeck’s Travels with Charley 58:27

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#1591 The Election of 2024 and the Constitution 55:58

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#1590 Ten Things: The Jefferson-Adams Correspondence 59:59

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#1589 Loss of Respect for American Institutions 1:03:17

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#1588 Presidential Norms 1:07:27

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#1587 The Sad History of Executive Orders 50:40

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#1586 Ten Things on Margaret Bayard Smith 59:25

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#1585 Ten Things About John Randolph of Roanoke 50:31

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#1584 The Red Barber Program 52:44

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#1583 College Football as Cultural Lens 59:42

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#1582 On the Trail of John Steinbeck 59:07

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#1581 Henry Wallace and the World That Might Have Been 58:12

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#1580 Ten Things about the Hamilton-Jefferson Relationship 59:15

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#1579 The Holiday Show 44:07

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#1578 Edward S. Curtis and the North American Indian 59:58

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#1577 The Listening to America Origin Story 59:06

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#1576 Ten Things About the Louisiana Purchase 1:04:47

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#1575 Mind the Gap: Between Presidential Administrations 57:51

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#1574 John Steinbeck and the Western Flyer 56:49

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#1573 Overrated and Underrated Presidents 58:08

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#1572 Ten Things: The Post-Civil War Amendments 58:01

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#1571 A Conversation With David Nicandri 1:08:06

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