Dear Listener,
I hope you enjoy today's featured podcast.
One of America’s greatest and most beloved film directors, Frank Capra, was just six years old when he arrived in New York on a steamer from Sicily with his poor Italian immigrant parents in 1903.
Growing up, he worked hard, excelled in school, and fell in love with American freedom and the American common man giving us such films as “Mr. Smith Goes to Washington” and “It’s a Wonderful Life.”
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I am also pleased to announce that adaptations of several episodes of The American Story podcast are now available in print.
To commemorate Shakespeare’s birthday (April 23), episode 93: a version of “The Great Author of America” was published at The American Mind. You can read it here.
You can read a version of episode 96: “A Rose on Lincoln’s Grave,” about heavyweight boxing champion Joe Louis at The American Mind here.
An essay in RealClear Public Affairs’s 1776 Series expands on four episodes of The American Story: “How Sleep the Brave,” “What’s Love Got To Do With It?,” “Known But to God,” and “Gettysburg.” That essay can be read here.
Finally, in case you missed it, in November of 2020 The American Story podcast was featured in Hillsdale College’s publication Imprimis. “Mystic Chords of Memory: Learning from the American Story” includes three episodes of the podcast in print.
Enjoy reading “Fingertip Memories” and “John Wayne” and “We are All Americans” collected together here.
For more good reading visit the “Writings” page of our website.
The American Story podcast comes out once a week, every Tuesday, as we rerelease some of our best episodes. Each episode is a 6-8 minute story about what makes America the country we love.
To learn more about each story and how you might support the Claremont Institute, visit our website.
Thanks for listening (and reading!)—and for sharing these stories with family, friends, and fellow patriots.
Chris Flannery
Host of The American Story
Senior Fellow of the Claremont Institute
