Presents a collection of essays unlike any other stuffy attempt at introducing the modern reader to the Great Books.
She saw “an atmosphere of hope” there, in the initiative of private citizenry “thriving in the little and the large.” She marveled at the sheer scope of the city’s efforts, scattered over more than a dozen sites and ten thousand acres. She wrote of sunken gardens; of a food distribution center th...
“What is government itself,” asks James Madison in The Federalist Papers, the name given to 85 essays written in support of the new Constitution by Madison, Alexander Hamilton and John Jay, “but the greatest of all reflections on human nature? If men were angels, no government would be necessary....