You are talking about “great men” who, keep in mind, have no relevance to me. Like, zero. The founding fathers? I struggle to care. I mean, really, why should I. I wouldn’t be any worse off if the US didn’t exist today–possibly my part of the world would be better off, and other parts mightn’t have been treated to the “democracy” and “liberty” of bombs. Similarly, Tolkien isn’t “great” to me. I think his prose is dull, I don’t think he’s done anything meaningful beyond what other Oxford academics of his time did, and his fiction itself is culturally worthless. Fantasy might well have been a less shitty genre if he weren’t so prominent.

You’ll have to try something else. Sorry.