The Importance of Reading Books

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The author grew up in the Dominican Republic. His father was a left wing dissident who spent time in jail, he says. He started reading Plato's dialogues after his high school Greek teacher saw him struggling with English. "Plato Socrates became a model for the intellectual life," writes David Frum.

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Roosevelt Montás. A Senior Lecturer at Columbia University. He holds a Ph.D. in English and Comparative Literature from Columbia University. He was Director of the Center for the Core Curriculum at Columbia College from 2008 to 2018. . a renaissance man who loves literature and writing, as well as being the director of Columbia University's Freedom and Citizenship Program.He speaks and writes on the history, meaning, and future of liberal education and is author of Rescuing Socrates: How the Great Books Changed My Life and Why They Matter for a New Generation