Lives, Fortunes, And The Culture Shift

About this episode

The episode discusses the complexities of the founders of the United States and introduces a new book on the signers of the Declaration of Independence.

The founders weren’t a tidy, unanimous blob of “great men,” and the more you learn about them, the more gripping the real story gets. We kick off Good News Friday with something we’ve been itching to share: our new book, “Lives, Fortune, Sacred Honors,” a fast-moving set of modern biographies on all 56 signers of the Declaration of Independence. Along the way, we talk through the kinds of details most Americans never hear, from personal rivalries and street-level violence to the brutal costs ...

People in this episode

Hosts: Tim Barton, David Barton, Rick Green

Topics covered

• American history
• biographies
• Declaration of Independence
• founding fathers
• cultural shifts

Keywords

• founding fathers
• biographies
• Declaration of Independence
• American history
• cultural shifts

Mentioned in this episode

Books & works: Lives, Fortune, Sacred Honors

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