What are you reading now?

[Joe Di Cola]

I am re-reading REVEILLE IN WASHINGTON by Margaret Leech. I last read it in the late 1950s or early 1960s. The copy I have was my father's which he purchased in 1941 when the book was first published. I am enjoying it very much, although it is from an era when historians did not include end notes. I would dearly love to know the sources of some of the material. All of my early years with Lincoln, starting when I was 11, none of the books had end notes. This is still a source of frustration to me for the reason stated above. In 1952 Benjamin Thomas listed some "Lincoln Literature" for each of the chapters in his great bio of Lincoln, but I do not consider these to be end notes as such. Thank goodness that standards have changed, although sometimes a 300-page book contains 200 pages of text and 100 pages of notes!
Any thoughts from others of you about the frustration involved in determining sources in older books?

Joe