Summer Reading Project, BookLikes Satellite

Matthew Burresci’s Dead White Guys: A Father, His Daughter and the Great Books of the Western World is a blend of memoir and epistle. Burresci shares the wisdom he had learned from Plato, Aristotle, John Locke, Niccolò Machievelli, Michel de Montaigne, Adam Smith, Karl Marx, and others and stories about his life with his young daughter. The premise is that Violet is to read this book when she turns 18. Burresci hopes that Violet might avoid some of the mistakes he made, as well as understand why the world—its politics, traditions, and philosophies—is the way it is. This is a task for which I have much admiration. I imagine that it’s the sort of thing I might do if I had kids myself. (I might do something like this for my nieces and nephews—probably to the horror of my siblings.)

Read the rest of my review at The Bookish Type.