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“As his father made painfully clear that night, to deface the pages of a book was to adopt the manner of a Visigoth. It was to strike a blow against that most sacred and noble of man’s achievements—the ability to set down his finest ideas and sentiments so that they might be shared through the ages.”
― The Lincoln Highway
― The Lincoln Highway
“Never in America’s history, though—however many sideburns Bowery barbers shaved or immigrants came ashore—had a losing presidential candidate argued that the whole nation had been swindled. When Abraham Lincoln won the presidency in 1860, his victory so outraged his opposition that an entire region of the country broke away. But in loss Stephen A. Douglas never claimed the election was “rigged.”
― The Steal: The Attempt to Overturn the 2020 Election and the People Who Stopped It
― The Steal: The Attempt to Overturn the 2020 Election and the People Who Stopped It
“the party endorsed the “speedy construction” of the transcontinental railroad and a “liberal and just” policy of immigration given that “foreign immigration…has added so much to the wealth, development of resources and increase of power to the nation.”
― And There Was Light: Abraham Lincoln and the American Struggle
― And There Was Light: Abraham Lincoln and the American Struggle
“It may be laid down as an axiom, that whenever a political party forecloses discussion on any subject, but more especially on a great moral issue, it is not only on the wrong side of that issue, but has an intuitive perception of that fact.”
― Assassination of Lincoln: a History of the Great Conspiracy
― Assassination of Lincoln: a History of the Great Conspiracy
“Most of the time, I’m kind of numb,” she replied. “You know, I think every mom out there can relate to the fact of how long it takes to create a baby, those nine months that you watch every ultrasound and every heartbeat. And it takes nine months to create a human being, and it takes seconds for an AR-15 to take that away from the surface of this Earth. And it wasn’t just my son. It was 25 other souls that left this Earth that day because that weapon fell into the hands of a tormented soul. And that haunts me.”
― Sandy Hook: An American Tragedy and the Battle for Truth
― Sandy Hook: An American Tragedy and the Battle for Truth
Young Adult Fiction for Adults
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Eileen’s 2025 Year in Books
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