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Today we're bringing you a special episode from The Authority Podcast. Subscribe to The Authority here: https://authoritypodcast.netDavid Fleming is a senior writer at ESPN who has been one of the industry’s most prolific, versatile, and imaginative longform writers over the last three decades at Sports Illustrated, ESPN The Magazine, and ESPN. He has reported on everything from the Super Bowl and Steph Curry to the Musical Chairs World Championship and the NFL’s obsession with glutes. His new book, Who's Your Founding Father? One Man’s Epic Quest to Uncover the First, True Declaration of Independence, was just released. David and Ross discuss:The clues that led David toward writing this bookThe Mecklenberg Declaration of Independence (the MecDec!) — what it is who wrote it, and who signed itJohn Adams accuses Thomas Jefferson of plagiarism — the evidence and thee defenseWhy May 20, 1775 is such a noteworthy dateTraveling to London to uncover an international conspiracy and discovering North Carolina’s Freedom Spring, previously lost for a centuryIf 11 US Presidents along with Ken Burns, David McCullough, George Will and others acknowledged the MecDec, why haven’t we heard more about it?The South’s critical role in the American RevolutionThomas Jefferson…shockingly awfulCaptain James Jack, the Paul Revere of the South (only braver)One takeaway today’s students should learn in their historyThe playlist at the Musical Chairs World Championship, and more!Who's Your Founding Father? is available from Hachette. Find it on Amazon, Barnes & Noble, or wherever you get your books: https://bit.ly/43Wt6F6 Read David’s 2013 ESPN story about the Musical Chairs World Championship here.Subscribe to The Authority to get more deep-dive interviews with education authors. It’s available wherever you get your podcasts. Visit https://bepodcast.network to learn more about the Be Podcast Network for educators.About our guestDavid Fleming is a senior writer at ESPN. During the last three decades at Sports Illustrated, ESPN The Magazine and ESPN he has been one of the industry’s most prolific, versatile, and imaginative longform writers, traveling the globe while penning more than 35 cover stories and numerous groundbreaking pieces on everything from the Super Bowl and Steph Curry to the Musical Chairs World Championship
