“The Most Essential Founding Father:” How Samuel Adams Fomented Revolution | Amanpour and Company
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- Stacy Schiff has written biographies of some of history’s most fascinating figures, from Cleopatra to the witches of Salem. Now, the Pulitzer Prize-winning historian is turning to an American revolutionary. In her new book about Samuel Adams, Schiff argues he’s one of the country’s most essential founding fathers. She explains to Walter Isaacson how someone so important could be forgotten.
Originally aired on October 27, 2022
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Right-wingers and "originalists" should read about Adams, whose vision we've fallen far short of. His concern for common folk, sympathy for slaves, zeal for meritocracy, epitomize the better parts of the American Dream. As a frequent viewer, gotta say this is one of the most informative interviews you've presented; she is right there on top of each subject, and Walter asks just the right questions. I often wish certain questions would be asked that aren't; Walter nails those AND ones I wouldn't have thought of, so five stars all around!
I've gotten the impression that the left is largely against meritocracy. Am I confused?
You have no idea what you’re talking about besides regurgitating the left talking point. The right-wingers care fir the common folks with real results, not just virtue signaling to get votes and don’t care the consequences. Look at the inflation now. That’s the result of giving free money and raised minimum wage. Who are the ones that suffer? Sympathy for slaves? Name any republican who owned slaves. They were all democrats. Zeal for meritocracy? Who allowed ten of millions illegal non-skilled migrants come to our country? Trump is the one want to ban chain migration and support immigrants with high skill. I hope I just opened your brain up a little bit.
You guys always produce segments that are a cut above and off the beaten path.
But this is even better than usual.
It plays so well right now.
You can feel the timing.
I am so jealous of Walter.
I mean, this is his job. To talk to interesting people about interesting things.
I admit he's good at it, but still, aren't you jealous?
Have you read any of his books? He writes like a demigod.
He does everything well.
Purchase the book when it came out. Great book, great writing. Learned a lot. Thank you for writing it.
I marvel at the "presentism" as the lens to view the journals of 18th century men. What about the women in the Adams boys lives? Mothers, sisters, wives, girls they courted, etc.? I see the notion as colonists realizing they are children leaving the "house of mother country". IMHO
Nice Bookcase Backdrop. Looks very smart indeed!
SAMUAL ADAMS has never been forgotten.
his BEER lives on & has inspired the MICRO-BREW revolution since the 1990s
I like that he has a beer brewery.
Right? More like FERMENTED revolution. More like AmanPOUR.
@@wal4798 Nice!
Democracy was actually adopted from indigenous huemans who self proclaimed "civilized good christians" called savages. So technically the most essential founding fathers of this country were the advisors of the Iroquois Confederacy that were present to assist your European fathers in the writing of your constitution.
Never read the federalist papers I take it. Democracies was actually taken from the Greeks and it's shortcomings were well known which is why a direct democracy wasn't instituted.
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There wouldn't even be any "federalist papers" if the European cavemen didn't get the blueprint of democracy for the Iroquois Confederacy.
In fact the Iroquois Confederacy even provided advisors that were present to assist your European forefathers in the written of your "constitution."
And believe it or not, democracy is far older than the Greeks.
@@TheZenGarden_ You're mistaken and you're directing those mistakes towards me.
Proto democracies did exist before the Greeks but Democracy itself does not. Democracy is Greek.
I was not saying that the US was not influenced by the IC but they had to have some relationship with them given that both the French and British were seeking to win their allegiance if not their neutrality in conflicts. This does not mean that they're as substantial as you claim to the process.
I would also like to point out which is more likely: That europeans (the west) would take ideas from people that they were already familiar with, who styles they were trained in (Romans, Greeks, also the west), and who they saw as their predecessors OR people they thought were uneducated savages in a new land that they killed and used as slaves?
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Believe whatever helps you sleep at night! Not my concern!
@@TheZenGarden_ recommend me a book that says differently and I'll read it. On today's age, facts should be the concern of everyone.
Wonderful and spellbinding review. Ms. Schiff is much more prescient than her west coast namesake. Democracy in America was born and embers were flamed by men like Sam Adams. Raise a toast with his beer brand in hand.
I am enjoying this book.
I love his beer!!!
One of the things about Sam Adams, who's beer I enjoy, that I detest was his despicable anti Catholic.
DO NOT BE FOOLED FROM BLACK MEN CAME ALL RAISES...
Look, I haven't won either an Elliot or a Mark Spitzer but to ignore how the French Indian war was colony wide motivation for revolution is a horrible thing. Since it hemmed colonies into the East when the economy was agricultural, and at the same time taxed them from this limited base.
Sure luvin y'all is right but truly, sometimes wrong would be better
DO NOT BE FOOLED BY THE DEVIL!!!
What does the devil do? So that I may know. One thing I know, is that the Bible says "the devil is the father of lies."
@@yurei8 Sounds like something the devil would say, in order to demonize a Father who builds a dream for His child.
@@yurei8 ((the devil speaks Truth.)) 😈
@@JeffCaplan313 The devil only speaks partially truths in order to deceive people, or misdirect people from the greater Truth. Or, if one sees life as a path to greater good, then the devil is the force that leads away from that path, and often towards, negative consequences.
"Sounds like something the devil would say, in order to demonize a Father who builds a dream for His child." ??
DO NOT BE FOOLED BY THE DEVIL...
samuel adams was not by any stretch of the imagination a proponent of democracy.
November 7- The London Gazette is first published as The Oxford Gazette. “one of the official journals of record or government gazettes of the Government of the United Kingdom, and the most important among such official journals in the United Kingdom, in which certain statutory notices are required to be published. The Gazette is not a conventional newspaper offering general news coverage” (Wikipedia, National Archives.gov, Date: 1665-1986, Description: This series contains copies of the London Gazette, the official newspaper…, Physical description: 1502 volume(s). ‘The London Literary Gazette and Journal of Belles Lettres, Arts, Sciences’ (Henry Colburn, 1824) posted the memoir of Lady Grizel Baillie, née Hume, (25 December 1665 - 6 December 1746), “a Scottish gentlewoman and songwriter. Her accounting ledgers, in which she kept details about her household for more than 50 years, provide information about social life in Scotland in the eighteenth century, When she was twelve years old, she carried letters from her father to a Scottish conspirator in the Rye House Plot, Robert Baillie of Jerviswood, who was then in prison” (Wikipedia).
‘In 1692 Lady Grizel turned down the offer to be one of Queen Mary's maids of honour,[1] and insisted to her parents on marrying Baillie over a more advantageous match’ (Wikipedia). Is 1692 when a ‘Good Girl Goes Bad’ (Artist: Spice 1, Album: The Corruptor: The Soundtrack, Released: 1999) chose to do so, ‘On My Own’ (Artist: Patti LaBelle, Released: 1986, Album: Winner in You, Genre: R&B/Soul)?
The most famous of Lady Grizel's Scots songs, "And werena my heart light I wad dee", originally appeared in William Thomson's Orpheus Caledonius, or a Collection of the Best Scotch Songs (1725). (Orpheus Caledonius : or, A collection of Scots songs
By Thomson, William, approximately 1684-approximately 1760, Archive.gov, 2014-04-21 15:47:41.28503). Are Women like ‘St. Monica (333-387, “born in Tagaste, northern Africa and died in Ostia, near Rome. Monica was a Christian, but her husband Patricius was a pagan and a man of loose morals. Monica's virtues and prayers, however, converted him, and he was baptized a year before his death” (Catholic Culture, August 2022) husband’s the ‘advantageous match’ Lady Grizel and women like her despise?
archive.org/details/orpheuscaledoniu01thom_0
books.google.com.co/books?id=w_I5AQAAMAAJ&pg=PA366&lpg=PA366&dq=Lady+Grizel+Baillie+in+the+london+Gazette&source=bl&ots=5QL9W2G0BK&sig=ACfU3U009-aq_E6nsYZ6w-i7uQomEgM1Sg&hl=en&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwjXjaDT55r7AhWln4QIHSsZA68Q6AF6BAglEAI#v=onepage&q=Lady%20Grizel%20Baillie%20in%20the%20london%20Gazette&f=false
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lady_Grizel_Baillie
genius.com/Spice-1-good-girl-goes-bad-lyrics
If Kay Burley ‘wants to be down with what the Mayor of Bogota is going through’ (Released: 1994, Album: Brandy, Genre: R&B/Soul, Nominations: MTV Video Music Award for Best Rap Video, more) she’ll have to answer if ‘The Boy is Mine’ (Released: 1998, Artists: Monica, Brandy, Album: Never Say Never, Genre: R&B/Soul) to King Bungane III and Claudia’s Mother 👨🍼?
genius.com/Brandy-and-monica-the-boy-is-mine-lyrics
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/On_My_Own_(Patti_LaBelle_and_Michael_McDonald_song)
genius.com/Brandy-i-wanna-be-down-lyrics
I bottle of economically priced ‘Clan MacGregor’ (Motto: 'S Rioghal mo dhream (Royal is my race, War cry: Àrd-Choille, Clan MacGregor © 2022) as we discuss advantageous matches.
www.clanmacgregorwhisky.com/en/
DO NOT BE FOOLED BY THE DEVIL...
DO NOT BE FOOLED BY THE DEVIL...