The Education of the Ambitious Soul with Shilo Brooks, PhD

Friday, November 8 at 12:00 p.m.

Austin Institute

Location: RRH 4.314 or via Zoom

What is the proper education for young people who aspire to achieve political greatness? This lecture will examine the autobiographies of great leaders of the past​ in search of insights into the ways their educations and early lives prepared them for the trials, tragedies, and triumphs of great leadership. This event is co-sponsored with the Austin Institute

Shilo Brooks is Executive Director of the James Madison Program in American Ideals and Institutions and Lecturer in the Department of Politics at Princeton University. He is author of Nietzsche’s Culture War, in addition to scholarly and journalistic articles on various topics in politics and the humanities. His teaching and research interests lie in the history of political philosophy, politics and literature, and statesmanship.