Pursuit: The Founders' Guide to Happiness
National Constitution Center
Pursuit: The Founders’ Guide to Happiness, is a 12-part series hosted by Jeffrey Rosen featuring Ken Burns and leading scholars. It explores how the founders understood personal growth and lifelong learning as essential to the common good, why those ideas matter today, and how you can put them into practice.
Top mentioned books
Here are the most frequently recommended books on the Pursuit: The Founders' Guide to Happiness podcast:
#1 Mentioned in 4 episodes
The Pursuit of Liberty
How Hamilton versus Jefferson Ignited the Lasting Battle Over Power in America
David French
#2 Mentioned in 2 episodes
Tolstoy's Calendar of Wisdom
Leo Tolstoy
#3 Mentioned in 2 episodes
The Pursuit of Happiness
How Classical Writers on Virtue Inspired the Lives of the Founders and Defined America
Jeffrey Rosen
#4 Mentioned in 2 episodes
Adam Smith's Theory of Moral Sentiments
Adam Smith
#5 Mentioned in 1 episodes
Virgil
Aeneid VIII
Virgil
Keith Maclennan
#6 Mentioned in 1 episodes
The Odyssey
Homer
#7 Mentioned in 1 episodes
A Great Improvisation
Franklin, France, and the Birth of America
Stacy Schiff
#8 Mentioned in 1 episodes
Observations on modern gardening
illustrated by descriptions
Thomas Paine
Thomas Waddley
#9 Mentioned in 1 episodes
The Tusculum Disputations
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Cicero
#10 Mentioned in 1 episodes
Tristram Shandy
Laurence Sterne
#11 Mentioned in 1 episodes
A Sentimental Journey to France and Italy
Lawrence Stern
#12 Mentioned in 1 episodes
Paradise Lost
John Milton
#13 Mentioned in 1 episodes
Telemachus
Fenelon
#14 Mentioned in 1 episodes
Tusculan disputations
Cicero
#15 Mentioned in 1 episodes
Experiments and observations on electricity
Benjamin Franklin
#16 Mentioned in 1 episodes
Nicomachean Ethics
Aristotle
#17 Mentioned in 1 episodes
Making the Presidency
John Adams and the Precedents That Forged the Republic
Lindsay M Chervinsky
#18 Mentioned in 1 episodes
The Iliad
Homer
#19 Mentioned in 1 episodes
Tom Jones
Henry Fielding
#20 Mentioned in 1 episodes
Two Treatises
John Locke
