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

Lectures in History

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History, Politics, News

4.1 • 696 Ratings

🗓️ 30 November 2024

⏱️ 70 minutes

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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. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:14.1	Hosted by Brian Lamb, this episode features author Richard Brookheiser and his book, Glorious Lessons.
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1:47.1	Richard Brookheiser has written and edited for the National Review magazine for over 50 years.
1:53.6	He has also written books about George Washington, James Madison, John Marshall, Alexander Hamilton,
1:59.6	and a founding father he calls a gentleman revolutionary,
2:03.6	Gouverner Morris. Now comes his latest, glorious lessons. John Trumbull, painter of the American Revolution.
2:13.6	Trumbull, who lived between 1756 and 1843, is most famous for his four very large
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