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A. Scott Berg • Max Perkins: Editor of Genius
Chance, positioning, and managerial strategy—all played a role in Lincoln’s victory.
Doris Kearns Goodwin • Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln
He tackled cliffs that more than once left him dangling halfway between talus and rim….From his camps by the water pockets or the canyons or high on the timbered ridges of Navajo Mountain he wrote long, lush, enthusiastic letters to his family and friends, damning the stereotypes of civilization, chanting his barbaric adolescent yawp into the teeth
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A Thousand-Mile Walk to the Gulf
Richard Powers • The Overstory: Winner of the 2019 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction
But retreat—or surrender—was not in Henry Flagler’s nature. He turned to Meredith’s second-in-command, William J. Krome, the strapping young civil engineer who had led the ill-fated mapping expeditions through the wilds near Cape Sable; without hesitation,
Les Standiford • Last Train to Paradise: Henry Flagler and the Spectacular Rise and Fall of the Railroad that Crossed an Ocean
a place so ferociously patriotic I thought Agent Orange might have been manufactured there or at least named in its honor.
Viet Thanh Nguyen • The Sympathizer: A Novel (Pulitzer Prize for Fiction)
Whether on foot, on showshoes or by sled, into the summer hills and their late freezing shadows—a high blaze, a runner track in the snow would show where I had gone. Let the rest of mankind find me if it could. JOHN HAINES, THE STARS, THE SNOW, THE FIRE: TWENTY-FIVE YEARS IN THE NORTHERN WILDERNESS
Jon Krakauer • Into the Wild
