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Inventing a Nation

Upon winning the War of Independence, the American colonists returned to their own independent colonies and settled down but all was not well. In this edition of America, Alistair Cooke discusses the coming together of the 13 independent colonies to form a new United States of America and how the men now known as the "Founding Fathers" went about inventing a nation.

English
  • Originally Aired December 10, 1972
  • Runtime 60 minutes
  • Network BBC
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