"Can't i read something more like me if i'm not a male, not whiteu anlot people, of course, have been very critical of the kind of great book's canon," he says. "There are works that take my own kind of biographical, situatedalatino emigrant to the united states and reflect on it." He adds: 'If we wanted to construct a canon that reflected the contemporary diversity of our society, we could do that'
How do books change our lives? Educator and author Roosevelt Montás of Columbia University talks about his book Rescuing Socrates with EconTalk host Russ Roberts. Drawing on his own educational and life journey, Montás shows how great books don't just teach us stuff--they get inside us and make us who we are.