Abraham Lincoln | James McPherson

2018: Book #11 During a round of depression, Abraham Lincoln’s friend, Joshua Speed, quoted Lincoln as saying that he would be more than willing to die except “he had done nothing to make any human being remember that he had lived.” That’s from James McPherson’s...

Leonardo da Vinci | Walter Isaacson

2018: Book #8 Odd. Strange. Weird. Disturbing. Very, very disturbing. Shocking. That’s how I would describe Leonardo da Vinci. Beyond that, was he a genius? Yes…very much so. I just finished book #8 for 2018… Walter Isaacson’s “Leonardo da Vinci.” This 524...