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An Adult Friend Of Lincoln's: "life Was To Him A School.

There Are 20,000 Million Books I Could Have To Read, But I Can Pick The Ones And Know That I'm Learning Something That I Didn't Know Before. That's The Glory Of Writing. It's Not Even So Much The Writing, It's What You Learn - Especially History - Because So Much Of It Is Research.

Better To Have Your Enemies Inside Your Tent Pissing Out, Then To Have Them Outside Your Tent Pissing In.

I Liked The Thought That The Book I Was Now Holding Had Been Held By Dozens Of Others.

Even Though Lyndon Johnson's Presidency Was In Many Ways Scarred Forever By The War In Vietnam, And Destroyed In A Lot Of Ways, He - As A Character - Was Even Larger Than His Presidency. Being Able To Get To Know Him Well, That Firsthand Relationship With This Large Character, I Think Is What Drew Me To Writing Books About Presidents.