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

byThomas Ricks

Thomas Ricks uses First Principles to investigate what America’s Founders Learned from the Greeks and Romans and How That Shaped Our Country through a carefully framed biographical portrait. By tracing causes alongside consequences, the narrative gives readers both a grounded account and a route into the connected fields of biography & autobiography and history. Specific examples keep the larger argument tangible and reveal why familiar explanations do not always account for the full story. Together, these elements make First Principles an accessible guide to the subject and the questions it continues to raise.

Publisher

HarperCollins Canada, Limited

Publication date

2020

Format

Print edition

Pages

416

ISBN

9780062997456