{"id":7410,"date":"2012-09-03T16:12:53","date_gmt":"2012-09-03T21:12:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/?p=7410"},"modified":"2012-09-03T16:30:36","modified_gmt":"2012-09-03T21:30:36","slug":"those-book-lists","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/?p=7410","title":{"rendered":"Those book lists"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m sure there are more good lists to be found on the Internet, e.g. Britain&#8217;s Booker Prize, but these four gave me a good start.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/list\/show\/290.Best_American_History_books\">Good Reads<\/a> (History)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/List_of_winners_of_the_National_Book_Award\">National Book Award<\/a> (Histories and Bios)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.pulitzer.org\/bycat\/Biography-or-Autobiography\">Pulitzers<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/s\/ref=nb_sb_ss_i_0_19?url=search-alias%3Dstripbooks&#038;field-keywords=presidential+biographies&#038;sprefix=presidential+biogra%2Cstripbooks%2C158\">Amazon Books Presidential Biographies<\/a> (among other book searches)<\/p>\n<p>I also have hundreds of books acquired over decades sitting on my shelves waiting for me to brush the dust off of. I love used books stores, the Duluth Public Libraries book sale and book reviews. I&#8217;ve stuffed many reviews of interesting books in a file folder and up until a couple years ago compiled a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.snowbizz.com\/Books%20Page\/myreadinglist.htm\">list<\/a>, started in 1999, of books I&#8217;ve read in their entirety.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve come to the conclusion that reading books from beginning to end can be a bit of a fetish. I&#8217;ve dived into fifty or more books as I&#8217;ve researched my prospective history and only finished a half dozen of these from A to Z.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m sure there are more good lists to be found on the Internet, e.g. Britain&#8217;s Booker Prize, but these four gave me a good&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[95],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7410","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7410","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7410"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7410\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7416,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7410\/revisions\/7416"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7410"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7410"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7410"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}