By Tom Graham
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Charlottesville, VA – A Charlottesville man would like to challenge your beliefs about the power of the federal government.
Especially if you think exceptional authority coming out of Washington is a new thing.
WMRA's Tom Graham sat down with UVA Historian Brian Balogh, the author of a new book on the history of government power titled, "Government Out of Sight: The Mystery of National Authority in Nineteenth-Century America".