First Principles: The Surprising Truth About What America's Founders Learned from the Greeks and Romans...for Better and for Worse

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Chris Cotnoir

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4.5 • 1.9K Ratings

🗓️ 16 November 2020

⏱️ 47 minutes

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Summary

Pulitzer Prize-winner Tom Ricks, one of America's foremost journalists and authors, has a new book called "First Principles: What America's Founders Learned from the Greeks and Romans and How That Shaped Our Country" and it could not be more timely. It challenges many assumptions about the ideas leading to America's foundings and sheds light on many of the problems we are grappling with today. Rosa Brooks of Georgetown Law Center, Ed Luce of the Financial Times, and host David Rothkopf discuss with Ricks what led him to write the book and some of its surprising, stirring and most-thought provoking revelations. Join us. Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/deepstateradio. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:56.0	Washington DC of course we have Ed Luce of the Financial Times how are you doing
1:02.0	Ed very good thank you and in of the Financial Times. How are you doing, Ed?
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1:04.0	And in Alexandria, Virginia, we have Rosa Brooks of Georgetown University Law Center.
1:10.6	Hi, Rosa.
1:11.8	Hi, Rosa. Hi Hi David. And from Dear Isle Main, we have the author of a new book and a friend of ours,
1:19.5	Tom Rick's Pulitzer Prize winning writer who has written a book now called First Principles,
1:26.2	What America's Founders Learn from the Greeks and Romans and how that shaped our country.
1:34.0	Timely, interesting, great book, really one of those
1:39.0	that I cannot recommend highly enough, but that's true of all of Tom's books.
1:46.2	If you haven't read Churchill and Orwell or the generals or the others, you should definitely go back and take a look.
1:54.6	Hi Tom, how are you?
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