America at 250: A View from Britain, with “The Rest Is History”
The New Yorker Radio Hour host David Remnick engages British historians Dominic Sandbrook and Tom Holland, hosts of The Rest is History, in a provocative re-examination of the American Revolution and the Declaration of Independence, challenging the myth of American exceptionalism by pla
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