“We summoned all the most relevant saints to our cause, and we knew it was their cause, too; the cause was simple and limitless at the same time, and the name for it, which we all seemed to know from infancy, was freedom.”
Summary
This story is the first in a series of seven about an immigrant boy who became my good friend and holds a special place in the history of the Claremont Institute. “Why are we going to America?” . . . “We were born American, but in the wrong place”
Resources
- Chris’s essay about Peter in the Claremont Review of Books
- Peter's essay about his family escaping Hungary to come to America in the Claremont Review of Books
- Episode of The Range Rider
- Stuntman Red Morgan’s Obituary in the New York Times
- Winston Churchill’s Sinews of Peace (“Iron Curtain”) Speech
- Captive Nations Week
- The Hungarian Revolution
- More on the Hungarian Revolution
Credits
- Narrator: Chris Flannery
- Audio Producer: Derek Wood
- Music Supervisor: Blake Huxell
