100 Objects #7: The Otis Pamphlet
7/3/202637 min
Before the Declaration of Independence was even a twinkle in the founding fathers' eyes, there was James Otis. Journalist Jack Hitt returns to tell the wild, tragic story of America’s forgotten proto-founding father and his inflammatory 1764 pamphlet. A story that is, in many ways, the story of the founding document of the United States of America.
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Jack Hitt· Guest1:22
I'm a Constitution nerd, [laughs] you know? And my girlfriend and I've decided to write a