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This episode explores the true story of Paul Revere's Midnight Ride and its significance in launching the American Revolution.

🎙️ Political Trade Secrets’ America 250 Series | Midnight Ride: How Paul Revere Saved the American Revolution As America marks 250 years, do we truly understand the dangerous night that launched a revolution and helped make independence possible? In this special America 250 episode of Political Trade Secrets , host Dustin Olson sits down with best-selling author Kostya Kennedy , author of The Ride: Paul Revere and the Night That Saved America , to explore the real story behind one of the most famous events in American history. This conversation goes beyond the Longfellow myth to pull back the curtain on Revere’s world, the Patriot intelligence network, the taverns and messengers that carried information, the other heroes who spread the alarm, and the chain of events that led to Lexington and Concord. Kennedy explains why Revere was more than a folk hero. He was a silversmith, express rider, trusted messenger, and operator inside an early American communications network that helped turn a British march into the opening chapter of the American Revolution. This episode explores: • The real Paul Revere beyond Longfellow’s legend: silversmith, express rider, and trusted Patriot…

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