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Understanding the Founding Fathers’ β€˜Mental Maps’

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.Β 

While George Washington had β€œa map that goes north by northwest,” Thomas Jefferson β€œsaw the country from [the] perspective of the West,” says Barone, a senior political analyst for the Washington Examiner and a co-author of β€œThe Almanac of American Politics” since its first edition in 1972.Β 

In his new book β€œMental Maps of the Founders: How Geographic Imagination Guided America’s Revolutionary Leaders,” Barone explains how the differing β€œmental maps” of Founders such as Washington, Jefferson, and Alexander Hamilton were sometimes in opposition, but together formed our great nation.Β 

Barone joins β€œThe Daily Signal Podcast” to discuss the little-known facts about the Founding Fathers he uncovered while researching the new book.

Listen to the podcast below:

The post Understanding the Founding Fathers’ β€˜Mental Maps’ appeared first on The Daily Signal.

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