The Pursuit of Happiness: How Classical Writers on Virtue Inspired the Lives of the Founders and Defined America Barbara Heller Mervyn Peake’s Gormenghast

Mervyn Peake’s Gormenghast

held in equal esteem with works that entered the collection as acknowledged masterpieces

this new edition combines the 2016 discovery of a hitherto unknown edition of the First Folio at Mount Stuart House on the Isle of Bute with the human

including its values and culture

a young adventurer and collector for a government library

The Pursuit of Happiness: How Classical Writers on Virtue Inspired the Lives of the Founders and Defined America Barbara Heller Mervyn Peake’s GormenghastThe Declaration of Independence identified the pursuit of happiness as one of our unalienable rights, along with life and liberty. Jeffrey Rosen, the president of the National Constitution Center, profiles six of the most influential foundersBenjamin Franklin, George Washington, John Adams, Thomas Jefferson, James Madison, and Alexander Hamiltonto show what pursuing happiness meant in their lives, and to give us the best and most readable introduction