More a light intro to the Founding Fathers than what they learned from Greece and Rome

Review of First Principles: What America's Founders Learned from the Greeks and Romans and How That Shaped Our Country by Thomas Ricks

When I was studying Classics as an undergraduate, I attended a guest lecture about Jefferson and his use of Greek and Roman literature. It was a fascinating approach that included an entire research agenda, one I liked to imagine as an academic career. I have always wanted to read a serious treatment of this approach, a kind of applied historiography to…