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Rescuing Socrates | Roosevelt Montas Interview | How the Great Books Changed My Life

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The Importance of Reading Books

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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