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Sex, Lies, and the Founders: The American Presidency, Democracy, and the Media

C.V Starr Center for the Study of the American Experience

Department of History

Institute for Religion, Politics, and Culture

November 8, 2011

Acclaimed historian Richard Beeman, Senior Fellow of the C.V Starr Center and the Institute for Religion, Politics and Culture, and winner of the 2010 George Washington Book Prize, concluded his four lecture series entitled "Inventing a Nation" with his fourth and final lecture exploring the founders of the Constitution and Presidents through American history, and bringing light to little known secrets and affairs.

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Photos from Lecture 1: The Founders and the Myth of the Original Meaning of the Constitution

Photos from Lecture 2: The Creation of the Bill of Rights

Photos from Lecture 3: The Founders, Religion, and Separation of Church and State

AUDIO for the Inventing the Nation series

Enlarge photos by Kathy Thornton '13.