Aristotle said that drama is more philosophical than history, but (it seems to me) sometimes history may be more philosophical than philosophy, so, with an obvi

Aristotle said that drama is more philosophical than history, but (it seems to me) sometimes history may be more philosophical than philosophy, so, with an obvious American bias _The Federalist Era_ _The Machiavellian Moment_, J.G.A. Pocock _The History of the United States During the Administrations of Jefferson and Madison_, Henry Adams _The Old Regime and the Revolution_ by de Tocqueville, also his history of 1848. _The Ideological Origins of the American Revolution_, Bernard Bailyn Polybius Lionhearted recommends a book on Castiglione--Castiglione's own book of the courtier is well worth reading and should be easy to find.