Tag: Candice Millard

• Favorite Books of 2016

  According to my records I read more than ever in 2016. Partially this was due to starting as a book reviewer for two library trade journals, thus increasing the volume of pages coming my way. But I also made more time overall for reading, because I love it and I work at a library and…

  Jan 2, 2017

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  # Batman, best of, books, Candice Millard, Chuck Klosterman, Glen Weldon, Hope Jahren, lists, Nick Offerman, Paul Kalanithi, review, Rod Dreher, Scandinavia, Steven Johnson, telegraphy, Winston Churchill

• Destiny of the Republic

  In Assassination Vacation, one of my all-time favorite books, Sarah Vowell calls the circumstances surrounding the Garfield assassination “an opera of arrogance, a spectacle of greed, a galling, appalling epic of egomania dramatizing the lust for pure power, shameless and raw.” After reading Candice Millard’s Destiny of the Republic, which details said circumstances, Vowell’s characterization now almost…

  Sep 25, 2014

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  # books, Candice Millard, Charles Guiteau, history, James Garfield, presidents, review