{"version":"1.0","type":"rich","provider_name":"Acast","provider_url":"https://acast.com","height":250,"width":700,"html":"<iframe src=\"https://embed.acast.com/$/68e4c0be965488b63a6987c5/6a0db2ca96570bc138617c88?\" frameBorder=\"0\" width=\"700\" height=\"250\"></iframe>","title":"The Founding Fathers | The O.G.'s | 2","thumbnail_width":200,"thumbnail_height":200,"thumbnail_url":"https://open-images.acast.com/shows/68e4c0be965488b63a6987c5/1779282444383-619a24da-ed7a-434f-aa0e-c242a3b5659a.jpeg?height=200","description":"<p>What turned America's most famous British loyalist into its most dangerous revolutionary? What does a public humiliation in a Whitehall chamber have to do with the Declaration of Independence? And, if the man who designed the American constitution believed men were angels, would he have bothered?</p><p>Peter and Afua trace how a candle-maker's son who pulled lightning from the sky and a sickly scholar obsessed with the fall of Rome built the architecture of the most powerful republic in history.</p><p><br></p><p>0:00 Franklin: the 18th century's global multimedia superstar</p><p>6:10 Poor Richard's Almanac and the art of building a platform from scratch</p><p>9:45 From kite and key to the Royal Society — Franklin's lightning moment</p><p>13:20 A proud Briton in London: the comfortable life that couldn't last</p><p>16:00 The Hutchinson letters, a Whitehall ambush, and an hour of public savaging</p><p>18:30 The moment Franklin stopped thinking of himself as British</p><p>21:00 Enter James Madison: the smallest man in public life and the biggest thinker</p><p>24:30 Two thousand years of history as a laboratory of political failure</p><p>28:00 Taxation without representation, the Intolerable Acts, and the radicalisation of Madison</p><p>31:30 'If men were angels, no government would be necessary'</p><p><br></p><p>Join <strong>Legacy Plus</strong> for bonus episodes, early access, Q&amp;A's, fewer adverts and more.</p><p><strong>legacy.supportingcast.fm</strong></p><p><br></p><p>Stay connected with Legacy: </p><p>Instagram: @originallegacypodcast </p><p>TikTok: @legacy_productions </p><p><br></p><p>Explore more from Peter and Afua — essays, sources, and ideas: </p><p>Substack: peterfrankopan.substack.com | afuahirsch.substack.com</p>","author_name":"Original Legacy Productions"}