First Principles (book)

First Principles: What America's Founders Learned from the Greeks and Romans and How That Shaped Our Country
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AuthorThomas E. Ricks
GenreNonfiction
PublisherHarperCollins
Publication date
November 10, 2020
ISBN9780062997456

First Principles: What America's Founders Learned from the Greeks and Romans and How That Shaped Our Country is a nonfiction book by Thomas E. Ricks, published in 2020. First Principles explores the influence of Ancient Greece and Ancient Rome on the founding of the United States by looking at the educations of George Washington, John Adams, Thomas Jefferson, and James Madison as expressed through their speeches and writings. It entered The New York Times Best Seller list at number 4.[1]

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