Thomas E Ricks

First Principles

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

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Produktbeschreibung

Examines how the educations of America's first four presidents, and in particular their scholarly devotion to ancient Greek and Roman classics, informed the beliefs and ideals that shaped the nation's constitution and government.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Gale, a Cengage Company
• Seitenzahl: 686
• Erscheinungstermin: 7. April 2021
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 216mm x 142mm x 23mm
• Gewicht: 544g
• ISBN-13: 9781432886097
• ISBN-10: 1432886096
• Artikelnr.: 60904623

Autorenporträt

Thomas E. Ricks covered the U.S. military for the Washington Post from 2000 through 2008 and was on the staff of the Wall Street Journal for seventeen years before that. He reported on American military operations in Somalia, Haiti, Korea, Bosnia, Kosovo, Macedonia, Kuwait, Turkey, Afghanistan and Iraq. A member of two Pulitzer Prize-winning teams, he is also the author of several books, including The Generals, The Gamble, Churchill & Orwell, and the number-one New York Times bestseller Fiasco, which was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize. He wrote First Principles while a visiting fellow in history at Bowdoin College.