(PDF/ePub) First Principles: What America's Founders Learned from the Greeks and Romans and How That Shaped Our Country Writen By Thomas E. Ricks

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First Principles: What America's Founders Learned from the Greeks and Romans and How That Shaped Our Country

By : Thomas E. Ricks

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The Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and #1 New York Times bestselling author offers a revelatory new book about the founding fathers, examining their educations and, in particular, their devotion to the ancient Greek and Roman classics?and how that influence would shape their ideals and the new American nation.On the morning after the 2016 presidential election, Thomas Ricks awoke with a few questions on his mind: What kind of nation did we now have? Is it what was designed or intended by the nation?s founders? Trying to get as close to the source as he could, Ricks decided to go back and read the philosophy and literature that shaped the founders? thinking, and the letters they wrote to each other debating these crucial works?among them the Iliad, Plutarch?s Lives, and the works of Xenophon, Epicurus, Aristotle, Cato, and Cicero. For though much attention has been paid the influence of English political philosophers, like John Locke, closer to their own era, the founders were far

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Author : Thomas E. Ricks

Pages : 416 pages

Publisher : Harper

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ISBN-10 : 0062997459

ISBN-13 : 9780062997456

 

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