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What are you reading now?
10-25-2020, 10:10 PM
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RE: What are you reading now?
Rob, theres a youtube clip showing part of Baldwin-Buckley arguing .... I forget why I found it a few months ago .

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Is king o' men for a' that” Robert Burns
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10-25-2020, 10:46 PM
Post: #392
RE: What are you reading now?
Mike,

I've heard that, but I haven't watched it yet. I want to finish the book first.

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Rob

Abraham Lincoln in the only man, dead or alive, with whom I could have spent five years without one hour of boredom.
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I want the respect of intelligent men, but I will choose for myself the intelligent.
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11-30-2020, 04:37 PM
Post: #393
RE: What are you reading now?
Just finished "Abraham Lincoln, The Times That Tried His Soul" by Emil Ludwig.

Old book, available for free on the Play Store.

Good historical biography, although some events might have been romanticized, but really enjoyed the reading. I devoured it in one night.
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11-30-2020, 06:13 PM (This post was last modified: 11-30-2020 06:18 PM by Eva Elisabeth.)
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RE: What are you reading now?
(11-30-2020 04:37 PM)Mylye2222 Wrote:  Just finished "Abraham Lincoln, The Times That Tried His Soul" by Emil Ludwig.

Old book, available for free on the Play Store.

Good historical biography, although some events might have been romanticized, but really enjoyed the reading. I devoured it in one night.
That's amazing, he was a German author who lived most of his live in Germany and Swiss, only during WWII in CA. I seem to remember his Lincoln bio was very popular in Germany in the 1930s (that is the amazing point, no one knows it nowadays over here), and I think there was also a play or radio program.

I just found it on Amazon (German original 1930 edition) at 3€...
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12-02-2020, 07:30 AM
Post: #395
RE: What are you reading now?
I seem to remember his Lincoln bio was very popular in Germany in the 1930s... and I think there was also a play or radio program.
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Cool! Ahh-ha-ha - Weihnachtsgeschenk, schenk ich mir!  (Aber es geht leider die Richtung von viel zu viel.)

I'm trying to get thru 'Stamped from the Beginning' by Ibram X Kendi. 
(Before those books under the Xmas tree get added to the stack, gotta get through.)
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