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

Thomas E. Ricks

eBook - 2020

New York Times BestsellerEditors' Choice —New York Times Book Review"Ricks knocks it out of the park with this jewel of a book. On every page I learned something new. Read it every night if you want to restore your faith in our country." —James Mattis, General, U.S. Marines (ret.) & 26th Secretary of Defense 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 m...ind: 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,... more