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"About a quarter of the way through the audiobook, and my love for Grant is reaffirmed each day. A rare ‘Great Man’ who was also a *good* man.
His failures and personal struggles, which lasted until his 40s at the start of the Civil War, are genuinely moving and, I think, especially inspiring for those of us who have failed at many pursuits. Grant should be one of the patron saints of late bloomers everywhere!" — Aug 18, 2026 03:40PM
"About a quarter of the way through the audiobook, and my love for Grant is reaffirmed each day. A rare ‘Great Man’ who was also a *good* man.
His failures and personal struggles, which lasted until his 40s at the start of the Civil War, are genuinely moving and, I think, especially inspiring for those of us who have failed at many pursuits. Grant should be one of the patron saints of late bloomers everywhere!" — Aug 18, 2026 03:40PM
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"“In political terms, the subcontinent was too large under premodern conditions to be brought together under the aegis of a single state. In fact the only state that has ever embraced the whole of India was the British Raj…Before that there had been occasional states of imperial dimensions based in the northern plains…but none of these states extended to the whole subcontinent. The normal condition of pre-Muslim" — 22 hours, 34 min ago
"“In political terms, the subcontinent was too large under premodern conditions to be brought together under the aegis of a single state. In fact the only state that has ever embraced the whole of India was the British Raj…Before that there had been occasional states of imperial dimensions based in the northern plains…but none of these states extended to the whole subcontinent. The normal condition of pre-Muslim" — 22 hours, 34 min ago
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The Year of Reading Proust
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Classics and the Western Canon
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