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Josh Liller

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I became an avid reader at a young age, thanks to a combination of my mother's encouragement to read, the book availability provided by school and public libraries, and the rewards of Pizza Hut's "Book It" program. I never lost my love of reading, which mostly focused on non-fiction. In high school, I spent a year reading Shelby Foote's famous trilogy, The Civil War: A Narrative. All my life I have predominately read history, including some biography.

Since 2014, I have been Historian and Collections Manager for the Loxahatchee River Historical Society in Jupiter, Florida. I am also a Historian for the Florida Lighthouse Association. In those capacities I've been a frequent history public speaker and contributor to national and local magazin
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Five Thousand Years on the ...

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The Florida Lighthouse Trail

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Lee and His Generals is a collection of 13 essays, all by Gallagher. Three are reprinted from previous Gallagher-edited essay compilations (Antietam, Gettysburg Day 1, and Gettysburg Day 2) and one from the lackluster Ken Burns's The Civil War: Histo ...more
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“There are people one knows and people one doesn't. One shouldn't cheapen the former by feigning intimacy with the latter.”
Tony Horwitz, Confederates in the Attic: Dispatches from the Unfinished Civil War

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“Power doesn’t corrupt, it reveals.”
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“A flash of the lightning,
a break of the wave,
He passes from life
to his rest in the grave.”
William Knox

Nicholas Sparks
“It was, I remembered thinking, the most difficult walk anyone ever had to make. In every way, a walk to remember.”
Nicholas Sparks, A Walk to Remember

“He would not bend on anything he considered a matter of principle, no matter what the possible cost to his own happiness. And with Adams, practically everything was a matter of principle.”
James Traub, John Quincy Adams: Militant Spirit

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