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Mark Twain for Book Lovers: On Reading, Writing, and Publishing
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| “Never let school get in the way of your education,” wrote Mark Twain. Indeed, his elementary school learning was finished at an early age, due to the death of his father. Mark Twain portrayed himself as a simple man of the people, but he had an unqu ...more | |
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| Just when I thought I'd seen every possible angle on the Revolutionary War, Nathan Perl-Rosenthal has come up with a new approach to view the evolution of our country. He noted that every July 4 saw a multitude of town gatherings to celebrate the ann ...more | |
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In February, 1933, Franklin D. Roosevelt narrowly survived an assassination attempt in Miami, Florida, weeks away from his first inauguration. The Mayor of Chicago, Anton Cermak, was injured and later died. So begins this tale of bouncing back from a ...more |
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| The year 2026 is a particularly good time for reflection on how America started and evolved into what it is today. In each chapter he chooses a speech that was important in its time, His first choice was Benjamin Franklin addressing the Constitutiona ...more | |
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| This is a Valentine for Americans who are in despair at the state of our country in 2026. Author and historian Meacham uses his position as a renowned centrist to create an anthology of writings that show how Americans were always striving to find a ...more | |
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Two years after the final military victory at Yorktown, the last occupying British soldier left New York and caravans of Long Island loyalists packed their belongings and moved to Canada. And America lived happily ever after, or did it? The economy ...more |
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| Everyone knows that London's Globe Theater was the venue for Shakespeare's greatest plays. Less well known is the fact that Shakespeare made his reputation in a theater called simply The Theatre on the other side of the River Thames. In this thorough ...more | |
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| This strives to be a literary experience similar to that of watching the PBS documentary. Unlike their work on the Civil War, they must rely on paintings rather than photographs, but it is still a highly visual effort. While they follow the major pla ...more | |
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| This strives to be a literary experience similar to that of watching the PBS documentary. Unlike their work on the Civil War, they must rely on paintings rather than photographs, but it is still a highly visual effort. While they follow the major pla ...more | |
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| A country born with the words "All men are created equal," wins its independence and then must deal with an enormous irony. Two kinds of people are not being treated equally at all. Hundreds of thousands of humans, kidnapped at gunpoint, are given li ...more | |
“Keep an eye to the future, and ear to the past, and after thinking it over notice nothing much lasts.”
― A Box of Rain: Lyrics, 1965-1993
― A Box of Rain: Lyrics, 1965-1993