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I decided to keep this long enumeration of the books I recall reading from cover to cover in this post to explain one of the handy benefits of having this blog. Often when I want to copy something I wrote in my original website www.snowbizz.com into my microsoft word the background gets copied as well. If, for example I copy an old Not Eudora column of mine from the “Diogenes” section it will include the yellow background. I can get rid of that background and be left only with the letters if I come to my Lincolndemocrat site and copy it into a post. As with the text following the date 1979 below only the words remain. <\/p>\n

This morning with a half dozen ideas for posts I opened my LincolnD “dashboard” and found it had an unpublished post waiting for me. It was from the page in my Snowbizz.com site called “my reading list.” I had started it in the Snowbizz days to record the list of books I’d read starting in 1979. From that date to 2017 when my old software failed I fairly faithfully recorded the “serious” books I read each year. I started in January of 1979 because I’d lost my teaching job and I was certain reading more history books could have prevented my losing a job. I was sure, and I’m not sure I was entirely wrong, that having a deeper knowledge of history might have served me well. I have a prejudice for knowledge of a subject over knowledge of Education classes as a core to success in the classroom. <\/p>\n

I’ve always read a lot but its usually been a couple hours of news each day than reading for pleasure. For years I was content to watch a 90 minute movie based on a book rather than plow through 10 hours of the original in print. However my concentration of news cut into my history reading time as did my compunction to watch TV. <\/p>\n

As early as elementary school I was embarrassed about how much face time I gave our television. My neighbor Becky P would come over and ask me to play catch and I’d often say “no” because there was some damn cartoon I was engrossed in. In an odd way I feel like I am in tune with my baby boom generation because most of us were boob tubed and with three networks we all grew up in the same hive. My theory to explain how fractured our society is today leans more on the thousands of ways we can spend our time now on our own eccentric interests rather than hive together. Old farts like me all know the same old same old. Its a lot of shared experience.<\/p>\n

I explain the spark that began the book list below in this post<\/a> in this paragraph:<\/p>\n

“In 1980 as I was about to climb my way back into teaching after a disastrous experience in the Proctor schools I decided to embark on a serious program of reading. I had in mind my Father’s advice to the son of a friends family. Brian, a fellow my age, was griping that he had so much coursework to do in college that he never had time to read all the great books that he wanted to. My Dad, a college teacher himself, suggested that he take a year’s break and do independent study reading the books of literature that he wanted. Brian did that and, as I recall, read something like 87 books the next school year. By the way this is at least my second mention of Brian in the blog. (This<\/a> was probably the first.)”<\/strong><\/p>\n

My next post will be a follow up to this and in it I will update my reading to 2025.<\/p>\n

1979 <\/p>\n

The Hobbit J.R. Tolkien
\nHawaii James Mitchner
\nFellowship of the Ring J.R. Tolkien
\nTwo Towers J.R. Tolkien
\nReturn of the King J.R. Tolkien
\nPlain Speaking
\n A lauditory, but partly fraudulent, book about Harry Truman
\nGiants in the Earth R\u00f6lvaag
\nCampaigning for President Weisbord
\n Stories of various American presidential campaigns
\nBirth of Britain Winston Churchill
\n A florid account of England’s early history, first in a series of four volumes
\nRepublican Roosevelt Morton Blum
\nRoman Republic Isaac Asimov
\nBrave New World Aldous Huxley
\nDragons of Eden Carl Sagan
\nNapoleon ?
\nRed Badge of Courage Stephen Crane
\nThe Greeks Isaac Asimov
\nRoman Empire Isaac Asimov
\nDark Ages Isaac Asimov
\nThe Egyptians Isaac Asimov
\nThe Near East Isaac Asimov
\nThe Challenge and Rejection Julius Pratt
\n Perhaps about Woodrow Wilson or American Diplomatic History
\nThe Religions of Man Huston Smith
\n a survey on all the major religions
\nAscent of Man Jacob Bronkowski
\n a humanist’s view of the development of civilization
\nDawn of African History Roland Oliver
\nA History of Asia Bingham, Conroy, Ikl\u00e9
\nMedieval Europe Hollister
\nThe New Archaeology Wilson
\nThe Land of Caanan Isaac Asimov
\nThe Shaping of England Isaac Asimov
\nThe Forgotten Empire Isaac Asimov
\n History of the Byzantine Empire<\/p>\n

( I read thirty books in 1979. I’d never done anything like this before and I haven’t done it since. Books in red are fiction. Books in Green are science related)<\/p>\n

1980<\/p>\n

The History of England John Borke
\nThe 100 Michael H Hart
\n one man’s list of the 100 most influential people in history
\nTo Kill a Mockingbird Harper Lee
\nShogan James Clavell
\nMinnesota Theodore Blegen
\n a history
\nAlexander Hamilton ?
\nA Child is Born ?
\n for new parents
\nWhat Every Mother Should Know about Having a Baby
\n Ditto<\/p>\n

1981<\/p>\n

All Quiet on the Western Front Maria Remarck
\n influential anti-war novel about WW1 that helped turn America to isolationism
\nTimes Atlas of World History London Times
\n Half maps, half history, I read it cover to cover
\nFathers and Sons Turgenev
\nBroca’s Brain Carl Sagan
\n Science and social history
\nThis Hallowed Ground Bruce Catton
\n Civil War History
\nMan’s Search for Meaning Viktor Frankl
\n Holocaust survivor’s account and psychological insights in inner strength
\nRunaway Horses Yukio Mishima
\n a novel by a Japanese nationalist who later committed seppuku as a moral example for a nonmilitant generation of Japanese
\nLatin American History Wilgus & D\u00b4eca
\nBarron’s Essentials of American History Nelson Klose<\/p>\n

1982<\/p>\n

The World According to Garp John Irving
\nClan of the Cave Bear Jean Auel<\/p>\n

1983<\/p>\n

Dune 1st of Trilogy Frank Herbert
\nDune 2nd of Trilogy Frank Herbert
\nPath to Power Robert Caro
\n Lyndon Johnson Bio the early years, highly regarded its sequel was panned
\nValley of the Horses Jean Auel
\nThe Murder of Napoleon Ben Weider, David Hapgood
\nGorky Park Martin Cruz Smith<\/p>\n

1984-86<\/p>\n

Polar Star Martin Cruz Smith
\nThe Read Aloud Handbook Jim Trelease
\n my bible on reading out loud to kids with a great bibliography of kid’s lit.
\n( I either stopped reading or stopped keeping track of the books read for these years or perhaps both)<\/p>\n

1987<\/p>\n

Washington, The Indispensable Man J.T. Flexner<\/p>\n

1988<\/p>\n

The Romance of Bible Scripts & Scholars John Reumann
\n a history of different versions and translations of the Bible
\nPlagues and People William H. McNeill
\n a history of the effects of pandemics on world history
\nThe Laughing Savior John Dart
\n a history of Gnostic Christianity<\/p>\n

1989<\/p>\n

The Bad Popes E.R. Chamberlin
\n a history about some really bad popes
\nWashington Goes to War David Brinkley
\n a reminiscence from one of America’s preeminent journalists about Washington DC’s growth as America entered WWII
\nFrom Harlem to the Rhine Arthur Little
\n a history of the all black 369th Infantry, raised in Harlem, NY which fought in WW1 and to which my grandfather George Robb was assigned as an officer. In the racist US Army of that era black troops were mostly commanded by white officers.
\nHot Blooded Dinosaurs A. Desmond
\nDinosaur Heresies Robert Bakker<\/p>\n

1990<\/p>\n

Parting the Waters Taylor Branch
\n a remarkable history of the modern Civil Rights movement
\nThe Emperor, Downfall of an Autocrat Ryszard Kapuscinski
\n an idiosyncratic, patched together narrative of the fall of Ethiopia’s Emperor for Life, Haile Selassie, written my a communist journalist who was given remarkable freedom to chronicle unflattering things about the non-communist world.
\nTwelve Parables of Jesus Maxie Dunnam
\n a Sunday school study guide
\nSurrender or Starve Robert D Kaplan
\n the story about the intentional starvation of the Ethiopian people
\nCatcher in the Rye J D Salinger
\n read for the second time
\nHannibal Harold Lamb
\nHiroshima John Hersey
\n an account of the dropping of the bomb from the viewpoint of the people on the ground
\nThe Trial of Socrates I F Stone
\nFrom Beirut to Jerusalem Thomas Friedman
\n current events<\/p>\n

1991<\/p>\n

More Like Us James Fallows
\n a writer’s thoughtful analysis of what makes American’s Americans
\nWonderful Life Stephen Jay Gould
\n about the explosion of new life found in precambrian fossil shale deposits
\nDecision in Philadelphia Chris & James Lincoln Collier
\n the creation of the US Constitution<\/p>\n

1992<\/p>\n

Lincoln and his Generals T. Harry Williams
\nIs Paris Burning Collins & LaPierre
\n How Paris was spared destruction in WWII
\nConfucius and the Chinese Way H G Creel<\/p>\n

1993<\/p>\n

Forgotten Scripts Cyrus Gordon
\n The story of the decipherment of lost languages
\nWho Wrote the Bible Richard Friedman
\n Analysis of the Old Testament’s authorship
\nJurassic Park Michael Crichton
\nZealous Intruders Naomi Shepherd
\n The rediscovery of the Holy Land by western tourists in the 17 and 1800s
\nThe African Slave Trade Basil Davidson
\n explains how the slave trade unraveled African society and culture
\nVanished Library Canfora
\n The destruction of the great library of Alexandria
\nThe Man in the Roman Street Garret Mattingly
\n Everyday life in ancient Rome
\nThe Persians Time Life, ed. by Jim Hicks
\n a history
\n1933 Philip Metcalfe
\n five people’s experiences in Germany the year Adolph Hitler became Chancellor
\nThe Christians as the Romans Saw Them Robert Wilkin<\/p>\n

1994<\/p>\n

The Learning Gap Stigler & Stevensen
\n gap between rich and poor in education or something like that
\nKing of Pontus Alfred Doggan
\n Biography of Mithradates enemy of Rome
\nAaron Burr The Great Am Rascal Philip Vail
\nBalkan Ghosts Robert Kaplan
\n Balkan History
\nPilgrims in their Own Land Martin Marty
\n History of American Christianity<\/p>\n

1995<\/p>\n

The Great Triumvirate Merrill Peterson
\n Biography of Webster, Calhoun and Henry Clay
\nProfiles in Courage John F Kennedy
\n rereading
\nThe Armada Garrett Mattingly
\n Spanish Armada<\/p>\n

1996<\/p>\n

Bob Dole Richard Ben Cramer
\nThe Time Before History Colin Tudge
\n Human Prehistory
\n1066 The Year of the Conquest David Howarth
\n (audio book) the last successful invasion of England
\nThe Last Best Hope on Earth Mark E Neely Jr.
\n Abraham Lincoln
\nNo Ordinary Time Doris Kearns Goodwin
\n Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt and the coming of war<\/p>\n

1997<\/p>\n

The Celts – First Masters of Europe New Horizons
\nUndaunted Courage Stephen Ambrose
\n Journey of Lewis & Clark
\nLongitude Dava Sobel
\n History of mastering of navigation technology
\nHow the Irish Saved Civilization Thomas Cahill
\n transmission of ancient classical texts<\/p>\n

1998<\/p>\n

American Sphinx John Ellis
\n Bio of Thomas Jefferson
\nTo Kill a Mockingbird Harper Lee
\n rereading
\nJapanese Destroyer Captain T Hara
\n war memoir<\/p>\n

1999<\/p>\n

One Hundred Days Alan Schom
\n Napoleon from Elba to Waterloo
\nThe Rape of Nanking Iris Chang<\/p>\n

2000<\/p>\n

King Leopold’s Ghost A Hochschil
\n The Rape of the Congo by King Leopold
\nGuns Germs and Steel Jared Diamond
\n How latitude, geography and environment have determine history’s winners and losers
\nThe Lynchings in Duluth Michael Fedo<\/p>\n

2001<\/p>\n

Day of Deceit Robert Stinnett
\n FDR’s conspiracy to provoke a Japanese attack at Pearl Harbor – supports the theory
\nApril 1865 the Month that Saved America John Winik
\n The last month of the Civil War
\nA Short History of Reconstruction Eric Foner
\nFrederick Douglass William S. McFeely
\nThe Professor and the Madman Simon Winchester
\n The history of the creation of the Oxford English Dictionary
\nTaliban – Militant Islam, Oil, Fund…
\n alism in Central Asia Ahmed Rashid<\/p>\n

2002<\/p>\n

Founding Brothers Joseph J. Ellis
\n The Revolutionary Generation
\nLibraries in the Ancient World Lionel Casson
\nThe Hidden Hitler Lothar Machtan
\nE=mc\u00b2 …the World’s Most Famous Equation David Bodanis
\nConfederates in the Attic Tony Horowitz
\n travelogue of the modern “Confederate” South by a Pulitzer winner
\nUlysses S. Grant Soldier & President Geoffrey Perret<\/p>\n

2003<\/p>\n

The River Congo Peter Forbath
\nThe White Headhunter Nigel Randell
\n Impact of Europeans on Melanesian Society
\nThe Map that Changed the World Simon Winchester
\n Wm. Smith, makes sense of English stratigraphy and gives birth to the science of geology
\nLife of Pi Yann Martel
\n I read this out loud to my wife. It’s wonderful!
\nTuxedo Park Jennet Conant
\n A wall street millionaire’s obsession with science leads to discoveries that will win WW2<\/p>\n

2004<\/p>\n

The Miraculous Fever Tree Fiammetta Rocco
\n History of the the drug Quinine which is still the world’s most reliable cure for Malaria
\nGod’s Secretaries Adam Nicolson
\n on making the King James Bible
\n“We are Lincoln Men” David Herbert Donald
\nWine & War Don & Petie Kladstrup
\n French vintners roll in W W II
\nParis 1919 Six Months that Changed the World Margaret MacMillan
\nCicero Life and Times of Rome’s Greatest Pol Anthony Everitt
\nThe Good Women of China Xinran
\n Wrenching stories of the pain endured by Chinese women since 1949
\nThe Bridge of San Luis Rey Thornton Wilder<\/p>\n

2005<\/p>\n

1912 – Wilson, Roosevelt,Taft and Debs
\nElection that changed the Country James Chace
\nLincoln at Cooper Union the speech that
\nmade Abraham Lincoln President Harold Holzer
\nLincoln Gore Vidal
\nStalin, The Court of the Red Tsar Simon S Montefiore
\nAnimal Farm George Orwell
\nNaked David Sedaris
\nWall St. Journal Guide to Wine Gaiter & Brecher
\nThe Devil’s Disciples – Hitler’s Inner Circle Anthony Read<\/p>\n

2006<\/p>\n

1812 The War that Forged a Nation Walter R. Borneman<\/p>\n

2007<\/p>\n

Master of the Senate Robert A Caro
\nDial M The Murder of Carol Thompson William Swanson<\/p>\n

2008<\/p>\n

2009 …….For two years I was so wrapped up in a political project that I read no books from cover to cover.<\/p>\n

2010<\/p>\n

Sunburnt Country Bill Bryson
\nA humorist’s Australian Travelogue
\nThunderbolt Kid Bill Bryson
\nA humorist’s Iowa Childhood memoir
\nLincoln, The biography of a writer Fred Kaplan
\n1776 Washington crosses the Delaware David McCullough
\nThe Diary of Anne Frank (Definitive edition) Anne Frank
\nNature’s Building Blocks A-Z guide to Elements
\n John Emsley
\nIn Tasmania Nicholas Shakespeare
\nThe Fatal Shore THE one volume Australian Robert Hughes
\nHistory (Began reading it 20 years earlier)<\/p>\n

2011<\/p>\n

Searching for Aboriginal Languages R.M.W. Dixon
\nA History of New Zealand Keith Sinclair
\nCarnivorous Nights (Trail of Taz Tiger) Mittelbach & Crewdson
\nNew Zealand Wildlife BRADT travel guide Julian Fitter
\nAustralian Wildlife BRADT ditto Stella Martin
\nThe Last of the Nomads W J Peasley
\nTrue account of the hunt for the last Aborigines
\nto relive the traditional nomad life in the 1970’s
\nafter the fled to the inhospitable Outback
\nfor breaking a tribal taboo
\nThe Original Australians Aborigines History Josephine Flood<\/p>\n

2012<\/p>\n

Walter Mondale, The Good Fight Walter Mondale
\nHubert Humphrey a Biography Carl Solberg
\nLyndon Johnson The Passage of Power Robert Caro
\nThe Political Career of Floyd B. Olson George H. Mayer
\nBio about MN’s Depression Era Governor
\nThe Swerve, How the World became Modern Stephen Greenblatt
\nConsequences of the Renaissance discovery
\nof an ancient poem by Lucretius
\nLincoln, Team of Rivals Doris Kearns Goodwin
\nThe Devil in the White City Erik Larson
\nAccount of a prodigious solo mass murderer
\noperating during Chicago’s World Fair
\nThaddeus Stevens 19th Century Egalitarian Hans L. Trefousse,
\nBio of the leading Civil War Radical Republican<\/p>\n

2013<\/p>\n

Black Sea Neal Ascherson
\nDiscursive History of the region
\nThe Book Thief Markus Zusak
\nUnreliable Memoirs Clive James
\nby Australian Born British movie reviewer
\nThe Barbarous Years Bernard Bailyn
\nThe first hundred years of 13 British colonies
\nLife on the Mississippi Mark Twain
\nPolk, the Man who Transformed
\nthe Presidency and America Walter R. Borneman
\nThe Warmth of Other Suns Isabel Wilkerson
\nHistory of black migration out of South from
\n1915 to 70’s<\/p>\n

2014<\/p>\n

One Summer America 1927 Bill Bryson
\nFascinating weaving of many events
\nZealot, Life and Times of Jesus of Nazareth Reza Alsan
\nPractical non biblical analysis of the times
\nof Jesus
\nThe Bully Pulpit Doris Kearns Goodwin
\nTeddy Roosevelt and his buddy Wm Taft
\nLincoln’s Boys Joshua Zeitz
\nHow his two secretaries rewrote his Pres. Bio
\nand elevated his reputation from saintly bumbler
\nto the most canny of Presidents
\nThe Color of Water James McBride
\nThe story of a black reporter’s discovery of
\nhis Jewish Mother’s remarkable beginnings
\nThe Narrow Road to the Deep North Richard Flanagan
\nMan Booker winner about an Australian POW’s
\nlife before and after being interned in hell
\nThe President’s War – 5 living Presidents Chris DeRose
\nwho mostly disagree with their successor
\nLincoln and his conduct of the War
\nOrphan Train Kristina Baker Kline <\/p>\n

2015<\/p>\n

Dead Wake Last Crossing of the Lusitania Erik Larson
\nWild Swans Jung Chang
\nThree Generations of Chinese women from the
\nWarlord period through the Cultural Revolution
\nMy Promised Land Ari Shavit
\nIsrael’s history 1897 – 2013
\nHarlem’s Rattlers and the Great War Sammons & Morrow<\/p>\n

2016<\/p>\n

The Wright Brothers (audio version) David McCullough
\nIn the Garden of the Beasts Erik Larson
\nA Bell for Adano John Hershey
\nEmpires of the Sea Roger Crowley
\nChristendom stops Turkish Advance
\nDark Horse a Bio. of Wendell Willkie Steve Neal
\nAmerican Rose A Nation Laid Bare Karen Abbott<\/p>\n

2017<\/p>\n

The Old Testament NRSV Moses et al
\nBleeding Kansas Contested Liberty Nicole Etcheson
\nin the Civil War Era
\nCountry Driving: A Journey from Peter Hessler
\nFarm to Factory
\n1920 The Year of the Six Presidents David Pietrusza
\nAge of Ambition: Chasing Fortune, Truth, and
\nFaith in the New China Evan Osnos
\nMr. Speaker the Man who Broke the Filibuster James Grant
\nDestiny of the Republic (Garfield Assassination) Candice Millard
\nThe Martial Adventures of Henry and Me William Allen White
\nMinnesota Rag (Landmark Supreme Ct ruling) Fred W. Friendly
\nMao Tse-Tung and I Were Beggars Siao-Yu
\nBorn a Crime Trevor Noah
\nLast Hope Island Lynne Olson<\/p>\n

* * *<\/p>\n

Through Junior High School (1963-66)
\n ( * books were required reading )<\/p>\n

a biography of Harry Houdini ?
\nSwiss Family Robinson Johann David Wyss
\nSecret Garden Hodgsen?
\nProfiles in Courage John F. Kennedy
\nDanny Dever Books (several in a series) ?
\n adventure books for boys
\nThe Rover Boys (several in a series) ?
\n adventure books for boys – belonged to my Grandfather Henry H. Welty
\nKon Tiki Thor Heyerdahl
\n This book helped awake in me an armchair wanderlust augmenting my stamp collection which bequeathed me a considerable geographic and historic knowledge.
\nTale of Two Cities* Dickens
\nThe Rover Joseph Conrad
\nTwenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea Jules Verne
\nTreasure Island* Robert Louis Stephenson
\nBlack Arrow Robert Louis Stephenson
\nIsland of the Blue Dolphin Scott O’Dell
\nOld Yeller Fred Gipson
\nAnimal Farm* George Orwell
\nScaramouch Rafael Sabatini
\nSense and Sensibility Jane Austin<\/p>\n

Through Senior High School (1966-69)<\/p>\n

Confessions of Nat Turner William Styron
\nIn Cold Blood Truman Capote
\nNigger of the Narcissus Joseph Conrad
\nCry the Beloved Country* Alan Patton
\nA Choice of Weapons Gordon Parks
\n Autobiography of Gordon Parks
\nKim Rudyard Kipling
\nCaptains Courageous Rudyard Kipling
\nOdyssey * Homer
\nSidhartha Herman Hesse
\nSteppenwolf Herman Hesse
\nDamien Herman Hesse
\nCheaper by the Dozen Frank B., Jr. Gilbreth
\nBelles on their Toes Frank B., Jr. Gilbreth
\nTales of the South Pacific James Michener
\nThe Source James Michener
\nThe Day Christ Died Jim Bishop
\nThe Day Lincoln Died Jim Bishop
\nCatcher in the Rye J D Salinger
\nFranny and Zooey J D Salinger
\nInheritors Golding
\nAlice in Wonderland Lewis Carol
\nHeart of Darkness* Joseph Conrad
\nSecret Sharer* Joseph Conrad
\nHuckleberry Finn Mark Twain
\nBorn Free Joy Adamson
\n( I have only included books I read completely. For instance, I never finished the required text Moby Dick. I read perhaps three fourths of it. It didn’t help that I bought a small note pad and began jotting down every word in it I didn’t know to look up in the dictionary. It slowed down the reading because it contained many unfamiliar words. I kept filling my note pad for several years thereafter. )<\/p>\n

Through College (1969-73)
\n (I read very few college texts from cover to cover and except for works of fiction I can’t recall most of the books anyway.)<\/p>\n

Black Like Me John Howard Griffin
\nMetamorphosis Franz Kafka
\nJapan Yesterday and Today ed. Ray Downs
\nCat’s Cradle Kurt Vonnegut
\nSlaughter House Five* Kurt Vonnegut
\nCatch 22* Joseph Heller
\nThe Stranger* Albert Camus
\nThe End of the Road* John Barth
\nThe Forrest People Colin Turnbull
\nThe Harrad Experiment Robert Rimmer
\n (Everybody has read something embarrassing but, hey, I enjoyed the book.)
\nHow to Pick Up Girls Eric Weber
\n (Ditto. Sorry, but I’m trying to be comprehensive here. It didn’t help me much anyway. I was amazed to find it listed at Amazon.Com otherwise I’d never have remembered the author.)<\/p>\n

Post College to 1979 (1973-78)
\nLord of the Flies William Golding
\nThe Prairie Years Vol 1 Carl Sandburg
\n Bio of Lincoln
\nThe Prairie Years Vol 2 Carl Sandburg
\nInside the Third Reich Albert Spear
\n by Hitler’s friend and associate
\n36 Children Herman Kohl
\n a teacher’s year in a Harlem school
\nAutobiography of Malcom X Malcom X ed by Alex Haley
\nThe Story of Language Mario Pei
\n Actually, this is the only book on the list that I may not have completed cover to cover. I skipped around in it but I read most of its 450 pages. The story of the evolution of language.
\nThe Mafia Fred Cook
\nBoys of Boise Gerassi
\n The story of a ring of gay pedophiles that was hushed up after some early exposure
\nMarco Polo Collins
\nThings Fall Apart Chinua Achebe
\nFoundation Isaac Asimov
\nSecond Foundation Isaac Asimov
\nFoundation and Empire Isaac Asimov
\n1984 George Orwell
\nBrave New World Thomas Huxley
\nChariots of the Gods Von Daniken
\n a ridiculous speculation about extraterrestrial visitations that while not fiction might as well be
\nGreen Hills of Mars Robert K. Heinlein
\nBeyond This Horizon Ray Bradbury Grendel John Gardner
\nEva Peron John Barnes
\nSugar Blues William Duffy
\n Expose of the ills cause by sugar. I haven’t stopped consuming it although I was inspired to bake a couple apples pies with honey. I’m a lousy cook.
\nHow I Went from Failure to Success Frank Bettger
\n My boss gave it to me to inspire me to sell insurance. It didn’t work.
\nThink Rich Napoleon Hill
\n Hey, it was the Eighties!
\nBlind Ambition John Dean<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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