The American Future: A History, by Simon Schama - S1E2

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American War

Series 1, episode 2

Simon Schama reveals how different the American attitude to war is from what outsiders assume it to be. Two of the founding fathers, Thomas Jefferson and Alexander Hamilton, disagreed about whether America should even have a professional army. American wars have always inspired profound debate - nowhere more so than San Antonio, Texas, nicknamed Military City because of its high population of veterans and serving soldiers, where Simon finds feelings about the war are deeply divided.