
Discover how Greek and Roman classics shaped America's birth. Pulitzer-winner Thomas Ricks reveals the Founders' classical influences that still echo today. "Restores faith in our country," praises Defense Secretary James Mattis. Learn why this intellectual blueprint matters now more than ever.
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The marble bust of Cicero sat prominently in Thomas Jefferson's library, while George Washington kept a well-worn copy of Addison's "Cato" at his bedside. These weren't decorative flourishes or intellectual pretensions-they were windows into the minds that shaped a nation. The American Revolution wasn't simply a rejection of British tyranny; it was a conversation across millennia, where ancient wisdom collided with Enlightenment ideals to forge something entirely new. Yet this classical foundation, so carefully cultivated, contained within it the seeds of both America's greatest achievements and its most profound failures.
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