Episode 146 Napoleon and John Adams
How Napoleon’s exploits in the holy land help us understand a remarkable letter from John Adams.
Supplemental Materials:
- Click here to read more about Vice President Mike Pence’s visit to the Knesset and Mordecai Manuel Noah.
- Click here to read Thomas Jefferson’s letter to Mordecai Manuel Noah.
- Click here to read John Adams’s second letter to Mordecai Manuel Noah.
- Click here to watch Rabbi Soloveichik’s online course, “Jewish Ideas and the American Founders.”
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