It is a telling commentary on how authors control what they write, but not what is read. Poe regarded his tales of ratiocination as something of a distraction; his great loves were poetry and his pros...
It really is an APPALLING thing to think of the people who have no books...It is only by books that most men and women can lift themselves above the sordidness of life. No books! Yet for the greater p...
Much of Hamilton’s previous two years had been spent building up an additional army, justified by stoking fears of a French invasion of godless radicals. That country’s revolution, Hamilton warned, ex...
Napoléon Bonaparte. The new leader had no immediate fight to pick with America; some thought he might actually bring peace to Europe. Hamilton’s endless demands for more funding and troops were beginn...
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