What are you currently reading?

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  1. ~Zen~

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    We should be grateful the founders of this country were so well educated. Somewhere along the way a good education with many broad topics learned has become a for profit system churning out either corporate lawyers and executives or religious fundamentalists.

    Where are the Liberal Arts?
     
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    Basically, I think, Franklin was the only relatively uneducated one, he was done with education by age ten. But he was a self taught genius.

    Alexander Hamilton went to King’s College (Columbia University)
    Thomas Jefferson, William and Mary
    James Madison, College of New Jersey (Princeton)
    John Adams and John Hancock, Harvard

    And since this is the reading thread, here is Jefferson's suggested reading list of authors:
    Herodotus
    Thucydides
    Xenophon
    Polybius
    Julius Caesar
    Sallust (historian)
    Livy
    Quintus Curtius Rufus
    Josephus
    Plutarch
    Suetonius
    Tacitus
    Justin (historian)
    Herodian
    Aurelius Victor
    Gibbons
    Plato
    Cicero
    Plutarch
    Xenophon
    Seneca
    Epictetus
    Pythagoras
    Marcus Aurelius
    Lucretius
    John Locke
    Henry Home, Lord Kames
    David Hume
    Voltaire
    Claude Adrien Helvétius
    Conyers Middleton
    Henry St. John, Lord Bolingbroke
    James Beattie
    Homer
    Virgil
    John Milton
    Sophocles
    Aeschylus
    Euripides
    Demosthenes
    Isocrates
    William Shakespeare
    Terence
    Horace
    Edward Young
    Theocritus
    Anacreon
    Joseph Addison
    Moliere
    Metastasio
    Jonathan Swift
    Alexander Pope
    'Ossian' (James Macpherson)
    William Robertson
    William Douglass
    Thomas Hutchison
    William Smith
    Samuel Smith
    Benjamin Franklin
    Captain John Smith
    William Stith
    Sir William Keith
    Robert Beverly
     
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  5. ~Zen~

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    I read that Jefferson loved living in Paris, and when there almost bankrupted himself buying up all the books he could and shipping them back to Monticello.

    And we know what happened with them after that, right?
     
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    "It is one of the few books ever published that created almost immediately on its appearance a political mass movement." In the United States alone, over 162 "Bellamy Clubs" sprang up to discuss and propagate the book's ideas.
     
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    Hendrix on Hendrix (Interviews)
     
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    I am currently reading "The Shadow Rising" by Robert Jordan as I continue my quest to read The Wheel Of Time Series before I die.
     
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    I'm currently reading Survive The Night by Riley Sager. I am enjoying it so far. :)
     
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  23. Michael1985

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    I've just started reading this.

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    Ghosthunting Southern New England, by Andrew Lake.
     
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    "Educated" by Tara Westover - A memoir about a woman who grows up in a strict and abusive household in rural Idaho but eventually escapes to learn about the wider world through education.
     
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    Rereading The Histories

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    I ust finished "King: A Life" by Jonathan Eig. A definitive biography of Martin Luther King Jr., this book is celebrated for its in-depth research and vivid portrayal of the man behind the civil rights movement, revealing both his struggles and triumphs. I'm writing a review about this book. Hope by using this tool I'll write it faster. AI tools are so convy for writing help, they can generate content quickly, providing suggestions, drafting sentences, or even entire paragraphs.
     
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