Did I ever show you the short version of my list? It's about one-third the length of the real McCoy, which I've been working on for thirty years. Currently I'm reading DeSantillana's The Crime of Galileo, Francis Parkman's History of the French and English in North America (Library of America, Vol. II), and a textbook of 19th Century European History. I'm also reading from subsidiary lists, set up since the original project began -- currently Vol. I of Malory's Morte D'Arthur, PBS's companion volume to a TV series called The Shape of Life, and Nicholas Wade's Before the Dawn, a book about the last 50,000 years of human prehistory.
To get the bad customs of a country changed, and new ones, though better, introduced, it is necessary first to remove the prejudices of the people, enlighten their ignorance, and convince them that their interest will be promoted by the proposed changes; and this is not the work of a day. - Ben Franklin to Alexander Small
We're going to raise the level of public debate in this country and let that be our legacy. - The West Wing
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Did I ever show you the short version of my list? It's about one-third the length of the real McCoy, which I've been working on for thirty years. Currently I'm reading DeSantillana's The Crime of Galileo, Francis Parkman's History of the French and English in North America (Library of America, Vol. II), and a textbook of 19th Century European History. I'm also reading from subsidiary lists, set up since the original project began -- currently Vol. I of Malory's Morte D'Arthur, PBS's companion volume to a TV series called The Shape of Life, and Nicholas Wade's Before the Dawn, a book about the last 50,000 years of human prehistory.
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