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FEED DROP: Booknotes+: Richard Brookhiser, "Glorious Lessons"

FEED DROP: Booknotes+: Richard Brookhiser, "Glorious Lessons"

Lectures in History

November 30, 20241h 13m

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Richard Brookhiser has written and edited for National Review magazine for over 50 years. He has also written books about George Washington, James Madison, John Marshall, Alexander Hamilton, and "gentleman revolutionary" Gouverneur Morris. Now comes his latest, "Glorious Lessons: John Trumbull, Painter of the American Revolution." Trumbull, who lived between 1756 and 1843, was most famous for his 4 very large paintings about the Revolutionary War on the walls of the rotunda in the U.S. Capitol Building in Washington, DC.

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