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Every Book Its Reader: The Power of the Printed Word to Stir the World | Nicholas A. Basbanes
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Inspired by a landmark exhibition mounted by the British Museum in 1963 to celebrate five eventful centuries of the printed word, Nicholas A. Basbanes offers a lively consideration of writings that have "made things happen" in the world, works that have both nudged the course of history and fired the imagination of countless influential people. In his fifth work to examine a specific aspect of book culture, Basbanes also asks what we can know about such figures as John Milton, Edward Gibbon, John Locke, Isaac Newton, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, John Adams, Frederick Douglass, Abraham Lincoln, Henry James, Thomas Edison, Helen Kellereven the notorious Marquis de Sade and Adolf Hitlerby knowing what they have read. He shows how books that many of these people have consulted, in some cases annotated with their marginal notes, can offer tantalizing clues to the evolution of their character and the development of their thought.
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MaGoose
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I made absolutely abysmal progress in the #readathon! Only read 102 pages of the tagged book this week. It's not like I wasn't trying, but this book read like I was slogging through ankle-deep mud. I've read two other of his books and had no problems. I'll set this one aside for another day. Just as there's a book for every reader, there's a time for every book. This just isn't the right time for me to read this book.

@Andrew65 #joysofjune

Andrew65 Oh dear that doesn‘t sound good, but you are right about the right book at the right time. 😊 4y
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MaGoose
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I'll be reading the tagged book plus Singapore Killer by Murray Bailey and/or The Warring States Conundrum by Seymour Grufferman.

#readathon #joysofjune

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MaGoose
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I can always get lost in the world of books.

#bookshelf #book

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SW-T
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Book, tea, and chill ❤️

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LeahBergen
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2BR02B Bahaha. 😆 I once went to a book swap where one attendee only read historical non-fiction about nineteenth century immigration law and seemed legitimately surprised/disappointed that no one there shared her tastes. 6y
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Tanner
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Day 21 #subtitles #aprilbookshowers Such a great subtitle!

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MrBook
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#TBRtemptation post 2! Basbanes was inspired to write this book by a landmark 1963 British Museum exhibition celebrating 5 centuries of the printed word. This looks particularly at books that have pushed or nudged history's great events & persons. He determines that we can assess figures' developments based on their read books & marginalia--Milton, Gibbon, Newton, Lincoln, Edison, de Sade, Hitler, Keller, James, etc. #blameLitsy #blameMrBook 😎

LitsyGoesPostal 😊👍🏻 7y
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A section of Bookworm Heaven above the Mason Public Library in Mason, Michigan

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