Steve Inskeep Book Recommendations & Book Mentions
This list consists of recommendations or mentions of books spotted in media, social media accounts, podcasts or other public websites.
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Our Ancient Faith: Lincoln, Democracy, and the American Experiment
Allen C. Guelzo
Airplane reading: advance copy of the great historian Allen C. Guelzo’s new book on Lincoln. A meditation on the sixteenth president and our democracy. The first page is breathtaking.
Hardcover, 2024
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Wintering: The Power of Rest and Retreat in Difficult Times
Katherine May
Colleague @rachelnpr talks with @_katherine_may_, whose book "Wintering" casts the darker periods of life as times of "adaptation and change." She says: "Unhappiness and discomfort are instructive. Wisdom comes from those places." @MorningEdition @NPR
Hardcover, 2020
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The Story of Russia
Orlando Figes
An episode late in Stalin’s life, as recounted by Orlando Figes in “The Story of Russia.” https://t.co/5YaF5bCWgS
Paperback, 2023
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Abraham Lincoln: The Observations of John G. Nicolay and John Hay
Michael Burlingame
A book I found useful in my research was “The Inner World of Abraham Lincoln,” by the prolific scholar Michael Burlingame of @UISedu. Though Lincoln was known as even-tempered, Burlingame unearths material for a whole chapter on “Lincoln’s Anger and Cruelty.” https://t.co/ehtAGVR8eq
Paperback, 2021
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Moby-Dick
Herman Melville
Recent dispatches include this one on reading aloud some American texts: our Declaration(s) of Independence, and Herman Melville’s Moby-Dick: https://t.co/bdI4ldJhEL
Paperback, 2017
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Imperfect Union: How Jessie and John Frémont Mapped the West, Invented Celebrity, and Helped Cause the Civil War
Steve Inskeep
Imperfect Union is out today. And so is a review by the NYT: “Inskeep’s revelatory Imperfect Union... does two important things. He shines an unsparing light on his subjects, and he finds unnerving similarities between the Frémonts’ America and our own.” https://www.nytimes.com/2020/01/14/books/review-imperfect-union-steve-inskeep-jessie-john-fremont-civil-war.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share
Paperback, 2021
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The Inner World of Abraham Lincoln
Michael Burlingame
A book I found useful in my research was “The Inner World of Abraham Lincoln,” by the prolific scholar Michael Burlingame of @UISedu. Though Lincoln was known as even-tempered, Burlingame unearths material for a whole chapter on “Lincoln’s Anger and Cruelty.” https://t.co/ehtAGVR8eq
Paperback, 1997
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Moby-Dick
Herman Melville
This post on the reading of Declaration includes a bonus post on another great American document: Herman Melville's Moby Dick. I've been listening while running. https://t.co/0s7hV5KmFx
Paperback, 2017
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Black Water Rising
Attica Locke
@SeanASaldana Caro’s third volume, “Means of Ascent” is the shortest and most focused. A scene in Uvalde. “Black Water Rising” by Attica Locke. Fiction that contains some truth. “No Country for Old Men,” Cormac McCarthy. “Eagles and Empire,” by David Clary, because you’re in Latin America.
Paperback, 2010
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Differ We Must: How Lincoln Succeeded in a Divided America
Steve Inskeep
You also can preorder Differ We Must: How Lincoln Succeeded in a Divided America. It’s out Oct. 3! If you intend to buy, it helps the book to preorder it here: https://t.co/bsojPZ96bo https://t.co/kcV2Yf2p42
Hardcover, 2023
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