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“Today is going to be a pretty fun one. We're going to go into a couple of different directions or more depth into a direction we've already kind of touched on. Are you ready? Yes, I'm ready. All right. So the first gentleman we're going to …”
▶ The Shadow State 34 Secret Societies 18; Horace Mann School @ 1:40
David McCullough founded
The Path Between the Seas documented
“Keeps that in mind. So after about 12 years, he decides to become an independent journalist. Independent? Uh-huh. Well, when people ask him about current political affairs, you know, whether Republican or Democrat, he always says, I special…”
▶ The Shadow State 34 Secret Societies 18; Horace Mann School @ 6:19
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Austrian Information Service documented
“that we've been talking about just about every week. So he goes to prep school. When he gets out of college, he decides to go to Christ Church at Oxford. So he's another Oxford across Atlantic guy. And he starts writing for Gulf Publication…”
▶ The Shadow State 34 Secret Societies 18; Horace Mann School @ 4:45
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▶ 1:40
Today is going to be a pretty fun one. We're going to go into a couple of different directions or more depth into a direction we've already kind of touched on. Are you ready? Yes, I'm ready. All right. So the first gentleman we're going to …
▶ 2:11
Born in 1933 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, just an upper middle class background, nothing exciting. He's known to us because he was a very big writer and a popular historian. Won Pulitzer Prizes, National Book Award, and even got a 2006 Pres…
▶ 2:41
San Francisco earthquake. Those are all bestsellers. And then he tried to get away from disaster journalism and wrote about the Brooklyn Bridge. Then he gets into writing about biographies on historians. He wrote Mornings on Horseback, whic…
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He also wrote the book that became another miniseries called 1776, which is about George Washington. He wrote about the Wright brothers. He's a narrator for Ken Burns in the Civil War series. And we'll get to this big book, the one that we …
▶ 3:44
There's a lot of writers and a lot of people in media, and the reason for that is pretty obvious. They want to control the narrative. They have to tell a story. Exactly. All right, so he gets out of school, and he gets hired to write for Sp…
▶ 4:45
that we've been talking about just about every week. So he goes to prep school. When he gets out of college, he decides to go to Christ Church at Oxford. So he's another Oxford across Atlantic guy. And he starts writing for Gulf Publication…
▶ 6:19
Keeps that in mind. So after about 12 years, he decides to become an independent journalist. Independent? Uh-huh. Well, when people ask him about current political affairs, you know, whether Republican or Democrat, he always says, I special…
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What do we know about the Panama Canal? Oh, I know a lot about the Panama Canal. Way more than I want to know. Sullivan and Cromwell was the law firm that basically helps Panama become annexed from Colombia. He writes about all that. Does h…
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So he makes a lot of use of letters and interviews with the actual participants and the surviving relatives. And he's trying to tell the personal side of what happened there. He talks about the difficulty of the French initial effort to bui…
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It appears he was calling that a negotiation. Oh, okay. So again, we go back to he's telling a story, not the story. Yeah, but it's an important story because, well, when we ceded control of Panama, we ceded control of the Canal to Panama. …
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And obviously, as you just pointed out, his book isn't telling the actual story or the full story, I should say. McCullough himself would observe all through, this is a direct quote, all through the Senate debate on the issue, this book was…