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NEW in Understand - An American Journey James Naughtie examines the ideas tying America's founding to the modern United States. Understand from BBC Radio 4 - unravelling the complexities of the biggest stories and subjects that really matter right now.

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  1. An American Journey: 1. The Pursuit of Happiness

    ÉPISODE 1

    An American Journey: 1. The Pursuit of Happiness

    James Naughtie examines the ideas tying America's founding to the modern United States. In this major new series marking America's 250th anniversary, James travels through time and across the landscape to discover how the Declaration of Independence embedded the idea of a country founded on what its authors described as 'self-evident' truths – that everyone’s inalienable rights included ‘life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.’ In this first episode James begins with the 'pursuit of happiness' – the American search for opportunity. He begins on the site of the original gold rush in northern California, before journeying to farms and factories; small towns and big cities across the American Midwest. As he does, he reveals how from Thomas Jefferson, author of the Declaration of Independence, to President Ronald Reagan in the 1980s, Americans have always seen the connection between economic and democratic freedom - the ability to choose their own fates, and the fate of the country. Producer: Giles Edwards.

    43 min
  2. An American Journey: 2. A More Perfect Union

    ÉPISODE 2

    An American Journey: 2. A More Perfect Union

    James Naughtie continues his look at the ideas tying America's founding to the modern United States, as he looks at what it means to be an American. In Chicago, he joins the Columbus Day parade - an exuberant celebration of Italian-American identity - and hears about the Great Migration of African Americans from the South to northern cities like Chicago. In Wisconsin, he visits the birthplace of the Republican Party, and in Ohio the Governor shows him the spot where Abraham Lincoln heard he had been formally confirmed as President-Elect. James considers how the social movements of the 1960s moved the centre of gravity of American politics from economic to social issues, with all that meant for political polarisation. Producer: Giles Edwards

    42 min
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NEW in Understand - An American Journey James Naughtie examines the ideas tying America's founding to the modern United States. Understand from BBC Radio 4 - unravelling the complexities of the biggest stories and subjects that really matter right now.

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