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A book on the American Constitutional Convention. Didn’t think I’d ever be skulking around that territory again. I remember hungering to do so in my twenties, out of school and out of luck, but not seeming to be able to find good books at hand. I ended up getting that Oxford edition, “Glorious Cause” I think it was called, which was more about the revolution than the Constitution. The interest didn’t really stick, but then nothing worthwhile ever really did back then. (Too many random and shallow years... I don’t understand how I could have been so wasteful of life’s time, except that one is apparently inclined to believe in one’s twenties that there is an endless supply of years to spend freely. I shudder at it. Such a fortune squandered.)
Going through the Times this morning, I catch a book-centric interview with Colin Powell. He is big on “The Summer of 1787: The Men Who Invented the Constitution” by David O. Stewart. It came out in 2008. I marvel a little that I should not have heard of it at all.
Funny, the Kindle edition is actually a couple of dollars more pricey. But I’ve noticed more of that lately. I may have to go with the savings, as fun as it to watch a whole book wirelessly download into the Kindle in seconds, feeling like teleportation.
Though, I don’t think it’s going to go on the very top of my ‘wanna read’ stack. First, I’m due for a novel or two for some pure fun. As for non-fiction, I think I want to do that book on Jesus’s parables first. But I’m a little doubtful about my priorities. My interest in Christianity is not what it was. Yet, the story of Jesus and his teachings is more foundational to Western civilization, and it would not hurt to get a better grounding in that, and my interest is hardly dead, though more literary than hopeful.
Jesus versus James Madison? Yeah, I think I will go with the parables first. After all, I am reading Caro's book on Lyndon Johnson now. I am due for a nice trip abroad.
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Going through the Times this morning, I catch a book-centric interview with Colin Powell. He is big on “The Summer of 1787: The Men Who Invented the Constitution” by David O. Stewart. It came out in 2008. I marvel a little that I should not have heard of it at all.
Funny, the Kindle edition is actually a couple of dollars more pricey. But I’ve noticed more of that lately. I may have to go with the savings, as fun as it to watch a whole book wirelessly download into the Kindle in seconds, feeling like teleportation.
Though, I don’t think it’s going to go on the very top of my ‘wanna read’ stack. First, I’m due for a novel or two for some pure fun. As for non-fiction, I think I want to do that book on Jesus’s parables first. But I’m a little doubtful about my priorities. My interest in Christianity is not what it was. Yet, the story of Jesus and his teachings is more foundational to Western civilization, and it would not hurt to get a better grounding in that, and my interest is hardly dead, though more literary than hopeful.
Jesus versus James Madison? Yeah, I think I will go with the parables first. After all, I am reading Caro's book on Lyndon Johnson now. I am due for a nice trip abroad.
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