Lincoln
Doris Kearns Goodwin brings me to helpless tears. That is just the Lincoln part of her talk!But the talk is lovely also about Lyndon Johnson, a man much under-appreciated by history. "This aging lion of a man."
Her baseball memoir is lovely, too. My first childhood vaguely solid memory is my father saying "Don Larsen just pitched a perfect game," obviously explaining to me some enthusiasm I did not then understand. I was 7 then so it makes some sense.
posted by Alan Adamson @ 2:04 PM
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I am now systematically going through these TED lectures. What a fantastic resource!
It is truly incredible how accessible so many things have become in the last 15 years.
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