These months I’m reading mostly nonfiction. Richard Nixon by Conrad Black has got to be the best book I’ve read for a couple of years. It is 1100 pages long.
Highlights are knowing how Nixon lived at a dilapidated cabin, with no running water or power with 2 other students, so he can rise up early and use the campus grounds to wear the suit that will be the only one he possessed at that time.
Another more lengthy highlight is the dastardly cunning wonder kid politician outmaneuvring Taft, Warren, and putting his lot with the super popular and charismatic Eisenhower.
One more spoiler about the man is him playing Happy Birthday on the piano for Duke Ellington (a black musician) at the White House.
She starts right from her earliest memories and doesn’t even get to her writing career until about halfway along. Singing and music were her first loves, and she relates how being told that she simply didn’t have the natural abilities needed to be an opera star was a painful but welcome message. She writes with candour and humility, and shares a lifetime of simple wisdoms.
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These months I’m reading mostly nonfiction. Richard Nixon by Conrad Black has got to be the best book I’ve read for a couple of years. It is 1100 pages long.
Highlights are knowing how Nixon lived at a dilapidated cabin, with no running water or power with 2 other students, so he can rise up early and use the campus grounds to wear the suit that will be the only one he possessed at that time.
Another more lengthy highlight is the dastardly cunning wonder kid politician outmaneuvring Taft, Warren, and putting his lot with the super popular and charismatic Eisenhower.
One more spoiler about the man is him playing Happy Birthday on the piano for Duke Ellington (a black musician) at the White House.
I found [Agatha Christie’s autobiography](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/16301.Agatha_Christie?from_search=true&from_srp=true&qid=ypStECFq3l&rank=1) to be far more profound and inspiring than I’d anticipated.
She starts right from her earliest memories and doesn’t even get to her writing career until about halfway along. Singing and music were her first loves, and she relates how being told that she simply didn’t have the natural abilities needed to be an opera star was a painful but welcome message. She writes with candour and humility, and shares a lifetime of simple wisdoms.