Archive for March 4th, 2008
Out of Print, and Still the Best, Part 1
March 4, 2008 in Reading Response
Tags: 1944, 1960, 1966, adlai, also, american, barry, book, copy, democracy, dewey, election, goldwater, government, history, jack, john, kennedy, nixon, out of print, part, part 1, photocopy, presidential, ran, richard, stevenson, text, they, thomas, u.s., world history
It’s rare that I buy two copies of the same book. Because bookstore books are free to read, it’s rare that I even buy one copy of a book. If I buy it, I must really be impressed.
My latest favorite instructional aid for American history classes will be a book not published since the mid-1960s.
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Every day, we experience a thousand moments, each of those moments setting in motion a thousand slightly different possibilities in the future. When we make these choices, we are thrust toward another day's crossroads, where we have another thousand choices.
Given the infinite number of choices we make in a lifetime, why do we choose so many of the same routes and make just as many of the same mistakes as our parents and grandparents?
I plan to learn from their mistakes. Let's see how far I get.
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