Album Notes

In Those Self Evident Truths, Ted Magnuson traces the roots of democracy through its founding documents. In these words from our forbearers, in brief accounts of the events leading up to their creation, one explores what is democracy—what does it mean to ‘build a nation, American style?’ Considering all our ancestors faced, their achievements were awesome, offering us powerful lessons, even today.
In our own times, generations still alive have seen the American Experience in Nation-building rebuild Europe after the World Wars. We’ve seen Japan and parts of Korea boosted into the technological age. In many ways and places, America has made its presence known. While Those Self Evident Truths implies no specifics on strategies and tactics, the question that remains for us in the present day is this ‘Can 800 years of struggle and heritage be downloaded into one election cycle, into a span of days, for those nations come lately to democracy?”
Ted Magnuson is a speaker and author. His background includes retailing and commercial insurance sales.