Throughout the Independence Day Special from CBS News Radio, host Gil Gross will be hearing from author Neil King, who walked out his door on Capitol Hill and traveled on foot to New York City. His quest to discover America and examine the historical sites along his journey were captured in the book American Ramble. Then, Harvey J. Kaye, author of Thomas Paine and the Promise of America, examines one of the most remarkable political writers of the modern world and the greatest radical of a radical age. And Mary Elliott, from the National Museum of African American History and Culture, details what life was like for Black people during the creation and early days of “the Land of the Free.”

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