Season 4 · Episode 5
The American Dilemma Episode
The Last Best Hope? · Rothermere American Institute, Oxford University
May 28, 202131m 28s
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Show Notes
What are we to make of the most famous of American Paradoxes: that Thomas Jefferson, who claimed as a "self-evident truth" the principle that "all men are created equal" was a slaveholder? In this episode, Adam discusses this problem with Pullitzer prize-winning historian Annette Gordon-Reed. With the US undergoing one of the most profound racial reckonings for decades, how should the morally ambiguous legacy of the Founders be understood?
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