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Podcast: Plausibly Live - The Dave Bowman Show
Episode: History + History = Five?
Description: If you ask one  hundred Americans, who is the best American citizen of ALL time? I've never done that, but my guess is the overwhelming answer would be George Washington. There is an almost worshipful quality that we take towards him, perhaps with some  justification, as we have painted his deification onto the ceiling of our  Capitol Dome.
We have a  corporate memory of him that fits both our need for the hero and our understanding of who we are as a people - perhaps flawed by strong. Here's the  question though, do we honestly believe that every...