[eno_]

The Heritage Foundation list is good, and I have read several of those books. But Bennet's Book of Virtues is a pretty lame collection that is overbearingly didactic.

Add Plutarch's Lives Suetonius's Thirteen Caesars and Churchill, and you have what every American child should read before the end of 11th grade. I wish I had, and my kids will.And for fun I'll throw in The Prince, and Machiavelli's much less well know but vastly more entertaining Belphagor - so they know the travails of a husband.

[Verginius Rufus]

Suetonius' Thirteen Caesars? I have a copy of Suetonius, but mine has only twelve Caesars. Which one am I missing? Sid Caesar? Caesar Rodney?