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Michael W. Cook

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Born
Eastport, Maine, The United States
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Author: Plato, Aristotle, Jim Morrison, Jean Shepherd

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Michael W. Cook is a multiple award-winning author across three genres: philosophy, mythology, and poetry. He is a 2022 winner of the Readers' Favorite Gold Medal & Bronze Medal, seven 1st place Outstanding Creator Awards, Firebird Book Award, and Literary Titan Gold Award & Silver Award. He retired as a Major from the United States Air Force, received a Bachelor of Science from the University of Maryland, and earned a Master of Business Administration from the University of Phoenix. He is pursuing a Doctor of Philosophy in Educational Leadership (Ph.D.) from Liberty University. Michael is currently working on a memoir about growing up in Downeast Maine.
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Michael W. Cook Two #WIP - one is a childhood memoir growing up in Downeast Maine and the other is volume 3 of my Passamaquoddy Legends Puzzle Book series.
Michael W. Cook My grandfather's mysterious illness. In his mid-40s, he was undiagnosed for many years. The disease irrevocably affected every member of my extended f…moreMy grandfather's mysterious illness. In his mid-40s, he was undiagnosed for many years. The disease irrevocably affected every member of my extended family. It has taken 30 years to process but this book is my story. "Little Boy on the Bay: Growing up in Downeast Maine" coming soon to Amazon.
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Harvard Classics

Has anyone read (or attempted to read) the Harvard Classics fifty-book set? It was alternatively known as "Dr. Eliot's Five-Foot Shelf of Books" and was first published in 1909/1910.

I have the Kindle Harvard Classics Reader's Guide to a Liberal Education which links to each volume via the Internet Archive. The audio portion has AI-generated text-to-speech but is not very pleasing to the ear: en-G Read more of this blog post »
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Gauis Suetonius Tranquillius (70-130) was an ancient Roman author and historian. This 58 page Penguin Little Black Book Classic contains excerpts from Robert Graves’s translation of The Twelve Caesars. Although it i
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Comprehensive overview of Greek Myths

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“The first to lead is not always the
best to lead." -from Meditations for Modern Man: Wisdom from your Father”
Michael Cook

“Every action is a choice, even if you
choose to not act." -Michael Cook”
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“Right is right even if no one is doing it; wrong is wrong even if everyone is doing it.”
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“Do not trust their words.
Challenge them to a staring contest, at the sun.
That is the true measure of a man.
The willingness to ruin oneself to prove.”
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