Steve Inskeep Book Recommendations & Book Mentions

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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.

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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

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An episode late in Stalin’s life, as recounted by Orlando Figes in “The Story of Russia.” https://t.co/5YaF5bCWgS

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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@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.

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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