A More Perfect Union (speech)
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A More Perfect Union (speech) has come up in 1 episode across 1 podcast in TMT, including Pod Save America. 1 person has made recorded remarks about it.
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Ben RhodesFormer Obama speechwriter and deputy national security adviser, Crooked Media co-host and author of "All We Say"
Rhodes said he now sees Reverend Wright as part of the Black church jeremiad tradition shared by Douglass, Stewart and King.
“Reverend Wright emerges out of the black church tradition of the Jeremiad, which is a speech that is intended to call out a nation's sins”
Pod Save America: What Does it Mean to Be an American? (May 31, 2026) · Listen from 50:32
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- Pod Save America · 1 episode
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What Does it Mean to Be an American?Pod Save America · May 31, 2026 · 1 h 20 min
Jon Favreau talks with Ben Rhodes about his book "All We Say," tracing the 250-year argument over American identity through fifteen consequential speeches.
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