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.
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