The Roots of American Order by Russel Kirk.
This was originally one of the books I had for my American Political Thought class. I paid about $70 for it so I decided to go through with it. It offers a perspective on how american and western ideology had developed. It shows how paganism and neo platonism had played their parts and how Christianity, became the civil religion of the early US because it provided a happy medium between the two ideologies.
Along with that it talks of the civilizing process that the Spartans went through of going from a gang and uniting as a team and how the founding fathers though they looked to the athenians because of their democracy, they liked the Spartans because they were the first to believe that their civilization was unnatural in that its creation was born from law rather than just a natural process. Overall it's an alright book. I paid $70 for it so might as well read it.
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