by MIC-admin | May 26, 2021 | Marketer in Chief Excerpts
John Quincy Adams is the author of the Monroe Doctrine – a bold statement of purpose to the rest of the world (especially Europe) when few there believed America had standing to make any demands. Jeff Bezos did something similar with the creation of Amazon – the big...
by MIC-admin | May 25, 2021 | Marketer in Chief Excerpts
Monroe and Hamilton almost dueled! With pistols! The episode gives us a window into the changing culture of “honor” in the early United States, and the role the church and women had in extinguishing dueling culture. Cancel culture is the modern equivalent of dueling...
by MIC-admin | May 24, 2021 | Marketer in Chief Excerpts
Each participant in the War of 1812 – the United States, Great Britain, Canada, and the Indigenous Nations – created their own narrative about the war, and its results. People often say we’re not even agreeing on the facts, but most often, it’s the stories we tell...
by MIC-admin | May 23, 2021 | Marketer in Chief Excerpts
Everything about the Louisiana Purchase was a gamble – including exploring it. That’s why Jefferson sent multiple expeditions, not just Lewis and Clark’s. We’re hard on people and companies who fail, and only tend to remember those that succeed. We should celebrate...
by MIC-admin | May 22, 2021 | Marketer in Chief Excerpts
Along with his wife Abigail, Adams was the conscience of the new United States, shining a spotlight on the gap between its ideals and its reality. We can understand modern #socialjustice movements (e.g. #blacklivesmatter, #climatechange, Income Inequality) in the same...
by MIC-admin | May 21, 2021 | Marketer in Chief Excerpts
A unified currency was one of the most important ways the states became united. Washington helped people trust the government enough to trust its money. (In fact, trust is the real underlying problem with Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies, not talk of bubbles and...
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