A new account of Western Civilization blends scholarship and beauty, offering full-spread images, maps, and original texts.
(Left) History professor of Harvard University, James Hankins in 2006, holds a collection of books from the I Tatti Renaissance Library for which he was general editor. (Ledatchev/CC BY-SA 3.0) (Right) He wrote the first volume of “The Golden Thread.”
A couple dining in a mid-scale restaurant can easily spend that much on drinks, food, and tip. That same $100 will purchase an upper-deck seat and refreshments for one at an Indiana Pacers game.
Jeff Minick
Author
Jeff Minick has four children and a growing platoon of grandchildren. For 20 years, he taught history, literature, and Latin to seminars of homeschooling students in Asheville, N.C. He is the author of two novels, “Amanda Bell” and “Dust on Their Wings,” and two works of nonfiction, “Learning as I Go” and “Movies Make the Man.” Today, he lives and writes in Front Royal, Va.