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Sir Henry Garraway,
John Keay • The Honourable Company: History of the English East India Company
Most important, one must become capable of hard, continuous,
David McCullough • Brave Companions
deferential
Gregory David Roberts • Shantaram: A Novel
His precepts on the teaching of natural history, certainly a significant part of the legacy, had far-reaching influence. “Never try to teach what you yourself do not know, and know well,” he lectured at Penikese his final summer. “Train your pupils to be observers. . . . If you can find nothing better, take a housefly or a cricket, and let each hol
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The First Salute: A View of the American Revolution
“Abraham Lincoln seems to me the grandest figure yet, on all the crowded canvas of the Nineteenth Century.”
Doris Kearns Goodwin • Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln
For his evening reading he stuffed into his briefcase a narrative by an old hunter in the Southwest who had fought Apaches.
A. Scott Berg • Max Perkins: Editor of Genius
Men of lofty genius sometimes accomplish the most when they work least