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100 1  $a Ricks, Thomas E., $e author.
245 10 $a First principles : $b what America's founders learned from the Greeks and Romans and how that shaped our country / $c Thomas E. Ricks.
246 3  $a 1st principles
250    $a First Harper Perennial Edition.
264  1 $a New York : $b Harper Perennial, $c 2021.
300    $a xxiv, 386 pages : $b map ; $c 21 cm
505 00 $t Appendix: The Declaration of Independence. $t Chronology -- $t Prologue: What is America? -- $t The power of colonial classicism -- $t Washington studies how to rise in colonial society -- $t John Adams aims to become an American Cicero -- $t Jefferson blooms at William & Mary -- $t Madison breaks away to Princeton -- $t Adams and the fuse of rebellion -- $t Jefferson's declaration of the "American mind" -- $t Washington: the noblest Roman of them all -- $t The war strains the classical model -- $t From a difficult war to an uneasy peace -- $t Madison and the Constitution: balancing vice with vice -- $t The Classical vision smashes into American reality -- $t The revolution of 1800: the people, not the plebes -- $t The end of American classicism -- $t Epilogue: What we can do -- $t Appendix: The Declaration of Independence.
504    $a Includes bibliographical references (pages 305-369) and index.
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