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More Madeleines From Reading Team Of Rivals

April 18th, 2008 · 1 Comment · Madeleines

Lincoln Reviewing The Troops As YouTube Video1
In my previous post, Madeleines From Reading Team Of Rivals, I discussed two passages which impressed me by presenting information already known to me in a way that provided new insights. Today, however, I focus on two events that I discovered for the first time in Team of [...]

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Madeleines From Reading Team Of Rivals

April 17th, 2008 · 1 Comment · Fascinations, Madeleines

Goodwin’s Gimmick
I admit that, prior to reading Doris Kearns Goodwin’s Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln, I harbored the suspicion that the book’s focus on Lincoln’s seduction and subsequent manipulation/enhancement – in the name of the Union cause – of three of his former competitors for the presidential nomination (New York Senator [...]

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Madeleines From "If On A Winter's Night A Traveler"

May 29th, 2007 · Comments Off · Madeleines

From Summer Reading List to Re-reading If On A Winter’s Night A Traveler
This post began as a list of recommendations for summer reading. As I was writing an introduction, I recalled that the opening paragraphs of Italo Calvino’s If On A Winter’s Night A Traveler addressed the same issue – preparing to read a [...]

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