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Books Are the Key

February 14, 2026

A random encounter while reading a book has Dave contemplating the reason why books remain so important…

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Delivering Democracy – The Dave Bowman Show

Before there was a telegraph wire humming across the plains, before railroads stitched steel across the continent, before the internet convinced us that information travels at the speed of light, there was a rider on a muddy road with a leather satchel and a republic in his saddlebag. In this episode, we are talking about the Postal Act of 1792. It sounds bureaucratic. It sounds dry. It sounds like something best left to archivists and footnotes. But here is the truth. This law built the nervous system of the United States. It answered a question that haunted the Founders after the Revolution: how do you keep a large republic from drifting apart? Washington signed it. Madison believed in it. Franklin helped lay the groundwork for it. And Congress embedded within it a bold idea that still shapes us today. Information should circulate freely. News should be affordable. Private correspondence should be protected. The government should connect its people, not spy on them. This was not about delivering parcels. It was about delivering democracy. So settle in. We are going to follow the post roads from Maine to Georgia, out to the frontier, and into the beating heart of a young nation trying to hold itself together.

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