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What I’m Reading Now 18

Posted June 13, 2010 by Patrick Young, Esq.

What I’m Reading Now: Roger Williams: The Church and the State by Edmund Morgan
What I Just Finished Reading: Night by Elie Weisel published by Hill and Wang; (2006)

Of course both my kids read Night in high school. It seems to be required in just about every high school in the state, based on my conversations with kids.

I was a little hesitant to read it.

I have read several histories of the war against the Jews. Most recently, I read Richard Evans’ three volume history of the Third Reich which devotes many pages to the Holocaust.

So I was not sure what the value would be in reading one more book on the subject.

Especially a short book we assign to 16 year olds.

But I was surprised. You will be too.

Read it.

What I’m Reading Now are occasional blogs that I post when I start a new book. They are not always immigration related. Here are some other notes I’ve written on books I’ve finished since September 2009:

17. Mayflower by Nathaniel Philbrick.

16. Champlain’s Dream by David Hackett Fischer.

15. American Jezebel: The Uncommon Life of Anne Hutchinson by Eve LaPlante.

14. The Sovereignty and Goodness of God by Mary Rowlandson.

13. Einstein by Walter Isaacson

12. The Possessed by Elif Batuman.

11. Apostles of Disunion by Charles Dew

10. The Renaissance At War by Thomas Arnold

9. Lincoln and Douglas: The Debates That Defined America by Allen Guelzo

8. Lincoln: Speeches and Wriitings 1832-1858 by Abraham Lincoln

7. Lincoln: The Biography of a Writer by Fred Kaplan

6. Goddess of the Market: Ayn Rand and the American Right by Jennifer Burns