The Socrates Express

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Copyright © 2020 by Eric Weiner

A portion of chapter 8 was adapted from “My Servant,” an essay published in The New York Times Magazine, February 3, 2008. Copyright © 2008 by Eric Weiner.

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First Avid Reader Press hardcover edition August 2020

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Interior design by Carly Loman

Jacket design and illustration by Ryan Raphael

Author photograph © Bill O’Leary

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

ISBN 978-1-5011-2901-8

ISBN 978-1-5011-2903-2 (ebook)