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Jacques Barzun: A Jacques Barzun Reader : Selections from His Works (Perennial Classics)
He started so young, and he chugs on so admirably. Perhaps Barzun is the last living philosophe from the Enlightment. When you read Barzun's stuff, you want to read more both by him and others.. The highest compliment I can give a writer.
Niall Ferguson: Empire: The Rise and Demise of the British World Order and the Lessons for Global Power
ULYSSES S. GRANT: Personal Memoirs: Ulysses S. Grant (Modern Library War)
He wrote clearly in the field and just as clearly on his death bed.
Sinclair Lewis: Sinclair Lewis: Arrowsmith, Elmer Gantry, Dodsworth (Library of America)
The themes are timeless, the details of time and place fascinating, and the prose better than you remember from 11th grade english.
Niall Ferguson: The Pity of War: Explaining World War I
This goes quickly; but it helps to know the subject first. Nt a good introduction.
A. N. Wilson: The Victorians

Struggling to find just the right words to explain a run of bad luck to investors, money manager Michael Roth looked to literature for inspiration

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