Republicans argue that President Biden's infrastructure plan includes items irrelevant to infrastructure. It will be a big political fight. But passing big infrastructure legislation has always been difficult - legally and politically. 

In this podcast, we briefly review the history of America's infrastructure - from Washington's dream of a water canal to America's constitution, and then to presidents that followed Washington, all the way to Eisenhower. 

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📚 Below are citations to some sources discussed in this podcast. Visit the post on ThePeel.news site for citations to specific pages.

Ambrose, Stephen E. Eisenhower: Soldier And President. Simon & Schuster, 1990. Amazon link. 

Chernow, Ron. Alexander Hamilton. Penguin Books, 2004. Amazon link. 

Chernow, Ron. Washington, A Life. The Penguin Press, 2010. Amazon link. 

Heilbroner, Robert L. The Worldly Philosophers. Simon & Schuster, 1953. Amazon link. 

Meacham, Jon. Thomas Jefferson, The Art of Power. Random House, 2012. Winner of the Pulitzer Prize. Amazon link. 

Meacham, Jon. American Lion - Andrew Jackson in the White House. Random House, 2008. Amazon link.

McCullough, David. John Adams. Simon & Schuster, 2001. Amazon link. 

Remini, Robert V. The Life of Andrew Jackson. Harper, 1988. Amazon link. 

Rubenstein, David M. The American Story - Conversations With Master Historians. Simon & Schuster, 2019. Amazon link. 

Schlesinger, Arthur, Jr. The  Age of Jackson. Konecky&Knockey, 1945. Winner of the Pulitzer Prize. Amazon link. 

Unger, Harlow Giles. The Last Founding Father - James Monroe And A Nation's Call To Greatness. Da Capo, 2009. Amazon link. 

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