Thu, Apr 04
|Collected Works Bookstore & Coffeehouse
Matt Gatton, The Shadows of Socrates: The Heresy, War, and Treachery Behind the Trial of Socrates
The death of Socrates may be the most famous unsolved murder in history. Set during the Peloponnesian War, The Shadows of Socrates solves that mystery, revealing for the first time how the philosopher was set up, who did it, and why.
Date, Time & Location
Apr 04, 2024, 6:00 PM
Collected Works Bookstore & Coffeehouse, 202 Galisteo St, Santa Fe, NM 87501, USA
About the Event
Matt will be in conversation with St. Johns Tutor, Chris "Kit" Slover,
This will be an in-store event and live streamed to Zoom, register for Zoom here.
Pre-order the Shadow of Socrates (publishing Feb. 6, hardcover, $29.95) from CW online here or call the store (505) 988-4226
"In this dazzling work of resourceful sleuthing, Matt Gatton just may have invented an entirely new genre: The philosophical thriller." -- Hampton Sides, New York Times bestselling author of the upcoming Wide Wide Sea
"A thrilling and important epiphany of a book. Like Socrates himself—the stubborn philosophical hero of this reexamination of the most famous trial of all time—Matt Gatton leads us out of the confusing shadows of historical misperception into the blinding light of reasoned analysis and understanding." --Rep. Jamie Raskin, New York Times bestselling author of Unthinkable: Trauma, Truth and the Trials of American Democracy
About the Book