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Any reading goals for 2019?
01-07-2019, 12:57 PM (This post was last modified: 01-07-2019 12:57 PM by Rob Wick.)
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Any reading goals for 2019?
In another thread I mentioned how I start a new year with a list of books I want to read. It usually changes as the year moves forward by either adding titles or delaying one when something comes up of greater interest. I'm curious as to what people here want to read this year?

In no particular order, here are the books I want to read.

Frederick Douglass Prophet of Freedom by David W. Blight
Impeachment: An American History, numerous authors
Hate: Why We Should Resist it with Free Speech, Not Censorship by Nadine Strossen
Uncivil Warrirs: The Lawyers' Civil War by Peter Charles Hoffer
This War Ain't Over: Fighting the Civil War in New Deal America by Nina Silber (good for those interested in Carl Sandburg)
American Dialogue: The Founders and Us by Joseph J. Ellis
The Improbable Wendell Willkie by David Levering Lewis
The Field of Blood: Violence in Congress and the Road to Civil War by Joanne B. Freeman
Lincoln the President (four volumes) by James G. Randall
The Pioneers by David McCullough (due out in May)

Of course, this list doesn't include what I'll read for my writing.

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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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01-08-2019, 05:45 AM
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RE: Any reading goals for 2019?
Lord Charnwood's Abraham Lincoln (it was on your earlier list, Rob, I think)

Kevin Keegan's The American Civil War

Chester Wilmot's The Struggle For Europe (actually, I'm half through it)

The Singapore Story: Memoirs of Lee Kuan Yew

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Is king o' men for a' that” Robert Burns
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01-08-2019, 10:43 AM
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RE: Any reading goals for 2019?
I know Robert Lincoln really hated the Lord Charnwood book and did not get past the first Chapter. From a talk given by Jason Emerson at the LOC.

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01-08-2019, 11:19 AM
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RE: Any reading goals for 2019?
Mike, you are correct in that I did say that was one I wanted to read this year. I still might try, but there's a few more of that I really want to give a shot to. As for Robert Lincoln, he really didn't like anyting that wasn't Nicolay and Hay. However, he did tell Ida Tarbell that her book was as good as N&H.

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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.
--Ida M. Tarbell

I want the respect of intelligent men, but I will choose for myself the intelligent.
--Carl Sandburg
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