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What's the best book (either Lincoln or non) you read in 2012
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What's the best book (either Lincoln or non) you read in 2012
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12-13-2012, 12:12 PM
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What's the best book (either Lincoln or non) you read in 2012
Every year I compile a listing of the books I've read and rank them. This year, thanks to Ida Tarbell, I've only read about 10 or so (I normally read anywhere from 25 to 30 a year). I think, without a doubt, the best I've read this year was Kathleen Brady's biography of Tarbell. It presents an overarching view of her life and attempts to explain her motivation for various aspects of her life. It would be my book of the year. A close second is Edmund Morris's book of essays, This Living Hand, which I'm reading now.
What sticks in your mind for your best book of 2012? Best Rob Abraham Lincoln is the only man, dead or alive, with whom I could have spent five years without one hour of boredom. --Ida M. Tarbell
I want the respect of intelligent men, but I will choose for myself the intelligent. --Carl Sandburg
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