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Thomas E. Ricks es un periodista y autor estadounidense, conocido por sus obras sobre historia militar y política.
Known for: First Principles: What America's Founders Learned from the Greeks and Romans and How That Shaped Our Country
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First Principles: What America's Founders Learned from the Greeks and Romans and How That Shaped Our Country
First Principles es un estudio revelador sobre cómo los fundadores de Estados Unidos se inspiraron en las ideas de la Grecia y Roma clásicas. Thomas E. Ricks examina las educaciones de figuras como George Washington, John Adams, Thomas Jefferson y James Madison, mostrando cómo su conocimiento de la filosofía y política antigua moldeó la creación de la nación.
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Colonial Education and Classical Foundations
In the American colonies, education was an inheritance from Europe, and Europe, in turn, inherited its intellectual life from ancient Rome and Greece. Long before independence was conceivable, the future Founders were reading Virgil and Homer, translating Cicero, and internalizing Platonic debates a...
From First Principles: What America's Founders Learned from the Greeks and Romans and How That Shaped Our Country
George Washington’s Classical Model
Washington stands apart from many of his contemporaries for his limited formal schooling and yet his profound embodiment of Roman civic ideals. He was not a scholar of the classics, but he lived their values instinctively. His admiration for Cincinnatus—the Roman general who relinquished power to re...
From First Principles: What America's Founders Learned from the Greeks and Romans and How That Shaped Our Country
About Thomas E. Ricks
Thomas E. Ricks es un periodista y autor estadounidense, conocido por sus obras sobre historia militar y política. Ha sido corresponsal de The Washington Post y The Wall Street Journal, y ha ganado dos premios Pulitzer por su cobertura de conflictos bélicos.
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Thomas E. Ricks es un periodista y autor estadounidense, conocido por sus obras sobre historia militar y política.
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