Michael Barone: Understanding the Founding Fathers’ ‘Mental Maps’
<p>The places where they were raised and to which they traveled formed the <a href="https://www.dailysignal.com/tag/founding-fathers" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Founding Fathers’</a> geographic orientation, which influenced their view of the nation and what the country could become, according to Michael Barone.&nbsp;</p><br><p>While <a href="https://www.dailysignal.com/tag/george-washington" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">George Washington</a> had “a map that goes north by northwest,” Thomas Jefferson “saw the country from [the] perspective of the West,” says Barone, a senior political analyst for The Washington Examiner and a co-author of The Almanac of American Politics since its first edition in 1972.&nbsp;</p><br><p>In his new book, “<a href="https://www.encounterbooks.com/authors/michael-barone/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Mental Maps of the Founders</a>: How Geographic Imagination Guided America's Revolutionary Leaders,” Barone explains how the differing “mental maps” of Founders such as Washington, Jefferson, and <a href="https://www.dailysignal.com/2016/03/14/the-real-alexander-hamilton-was-no-liberal/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Alexander Hamilton</a> were sometimes in opposition, but together formed our great nation.&nbsp;</p><br><p>Barone joins “<a href="https://www.dailysignal.com/podcasts/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">The Daily Signal Podcast</a>” to discuss the little-known facts about the Founding Fathers he uncovered while researching the new book.&nbsp;</p><br><p>Enjoy the show!</p><br /><hr><p style='color:grey; font-size:0.75em;'> Hosted on Acast. See <a style='color:grey;' target='_blank' rel='noopener noreferrer' href='https://acast.com/privacy'>acast.com/privacy</a> for more information.</p>
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The places where they were raised and to which they traveled formed the Founding Fathers’ geographic orientation, which influenced their view of the nation and what the country could become, according to Michael Barone.
While George Washington had “a map that goes north by northwest,” Thomas Jefferson “saw the country from [the] perspective of the West,” says Barone, a senior political analyst for The Washington Examiner and a co-author of The Almanac of American Politics since its first edition in 1972.
In his new book, “Mental Maps of the Founders: How Geographic Imagination Guided America's Revolutionary Leaders,” Barone explains how the differing “mental maps” of Founders such as Washington, Jefferson, and Alexander Hamilton were sometimes in opposition, but together formed our great nation.
Barone joins “The Daily Signal Podcast” to discuss the little-known facts about the Founding Fathers he uncovered while researching the new book.
Enjoy the show!
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