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My Fellow Americans

My Fellow Americans is Yuvraj Sing's open licensed (CC0) /name your price book tracing the histories of US presidential inaugural addresses; it reproduces each address along with a scholarly essay exploring its context.

https://gumroad.com/l/myfellowamericans

The book has a companion podcast in which various people read each address aloud:

https://anchor.fm/myfellowamericans

I was VERY pleased to get the chance to read FDR's first address:

https://anchor.fm/myfellowamericans/episodes/FDRs-1st-Inaugural-Address---03041933---Read-by-Cory-Doctorow-emvtge

That's the "nothing to fear but fear itself" address. It's a barn-burner.

https://www.gutenberg.org/files/4938/4938-h/4938-h.htm#link2H_4_0037

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