The Founders and the Classics: Greece, Rome, and the American Enlightenment

Is our Greek and Roman heritage merely allusive and illusory? Or were our founders, and so our republican beginnings, truly steeped in the stuff... Comments: I think politics, like other team sports, is an interesting subject. I find... It is almost universally acclaimed that the political and judicial wisdom of... Carl Richard writes that the college-educated colonists received a heavy dose... Richards asserts through this book that the "classics," being the ancient... Makes clear how the "framers' intent" can only be understood through the dense... Read More »

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