Pursuit: The Founders' Guide To Happiness
Pursuit: The Founders’ Guide To Happiness, is a 12-part series hosted by Jeffrey Rosen featuring Ken Burns and leading scholars. It explores how the founders understood personal growth and lifelong learning as essential to the common good, why those ideas matter today, and how you can put them into practice.
- Update frequency
- every 6 days
- Average duration
- 23 minutes
- Episodes
- 3
- Years Active
- 2025
Episode 2: Expansive Temperance with Benjamin Franklin
In his autobiography at the age of 79, Benjamin Franklin attributed the happiness of his long life to his “evenness of temper,” rather than to his public accomplishments. Jeffrey Rosen speaks with Fr…
00:37:44 |
Tue 16 Sep 2025
Episode 1: In Order to Be Happy
The “pursuit of happiness” is one of the most famous phrases in American history, and when America’s founders wrote it in the Declaration of Independence, they intended it to mean happiness through l…
00:29:27 |
Mon 08 Sep 2025
Trailer - Pursuit: The Founders' Guide To Happiness
Here’s something that you probably didn’t learn in school: America’s founders spent much of their time reading about how to be better people. And that lifelong quest for self-improvement––in order to…
00:03:40 |
Tue 02 Sep 2025
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