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Peggy Noonan's Reading List

The author, most recently, of "The Time of Our Lives" isn't impressed with recent books by presidential contenders: "They were mostly unreal and insincere."

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By the Book: Peggy Noonan (2015)

NYT By the Book column (2015-12-17).

Source: www.nytimes.com

The First World War
John Keegan · Buy on Amazon
""The First World War," by John Keegan, sticks out for a beautiful rendering of what the war swept away in terms of rising European culture."
The Making of the President 1960
Unknown · Buy on Amazon
""The Making of the President 1960." A mold breaker and genre-maker. It is such a relief when a journalist is a great writer."
Cover of To Kill a Mockingbird
To Kill a Mockingbird
Harper Lee · Buy on Amazon
"I was rereading "To Kill a Mockingbird" to write about Harper Lee, and two parts filled my eyes with tears. When Atticus shoots the rabid dog, and the end, when Scout says he'd be by Jem's bed in the morning."
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
Unknown · Buy on Amazon
"As a kid, I identified with Francie in "A Tree Grows in Brooklyn." The Brooklyn into which I was born still looked like the Brooklyn she described, and the people were not so dissimilar."

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