Vincent Lombardo 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?

Vincent Lombardo If I become bored with a work of nonfiction, and I frequently do, I skim and skip and read what I like. Sometimes I refer to the table of contents and…moreIf I become bored with a work of nonfiction, and I frequently do, I skim and skip and read what I like. Sometimes I refer to the table of contents and index to find what will interest me. Nonfiction is more difficult to read than fiction. The nonfiction author has to include certain facts to make the book credible. Some facts are just more interesting than others, and we may disagree as to which are interesting and which are not. If I miss or do not understand certain facts, so be it. No midterm, no final!(less)

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