Joel answers “I enjoy reading and learning about history...”

Prateet asked this question about The Bully Pulpit: Theodore Roosevelt, William Howard Taft, and the Golden Age of Journalism:

I enjoy reading and learning about history but struggle to read long books like the Bully Pulpit without becoming lost in the detail and only making it a few chapters in without losing sight of the bigger picture. How long do people usually take to finish a book of this length, and how best to extract the most important information?

Joel I am a very slow reader. It is not uncommon for me to read 50-100 pages/week (sometimes even slower) but I try to bury myself in the minutiae of a boo…moreI am a very slow reader. It is not uncommon for me to read 50-100 pages/week (sometimes even slower) but I try to bury myself in the minutiae of a book. If it is not interesting to me I don't bother with it for long. This book took me 3-4 months to read, but I had long stretches where I didn't read it at all.(less)

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