From: djheydt@kithrup.com   
      
   In article <10ma04j$1u9n4$1@dont-email.me>,   
   Evelyn C. Leeper  wrote:   
   >TOPIC: This Week's Reading (book comments by Evelyn C. Leeper)   
   >   
   >AUTHOR-IN-CHIEF: THE UNTOLD STORY OF OUR PRESIDENTS AND THE BOOKS   
   >THEY WROTE by Craig Ferman (Simon and Schuster, ISBN   
   >978-1-476-78693-1) is a bit more general than the titles might   
   >indicate, and also a bit more specific. It covers to at least some   
   >degree books written by non-Presidents (Thomas Paine and Benjamin   
   >Franklin, among others) while concentrating on some Presidents   
   >more than others. But it also covers a lot about people's reading   
   >habits throughout American history, as well as ideas of   
   >authorship, publishing, and bookselling from pre-Revolutionary   
   >times to the present. On the other hand, it covers very little   
   >about the Presidents other than their writings.   
      
   [Hal Heydt]   
   The two works I'm familiar with are "The Naval War of 1812" by   
   Theodore Roosevelt and the English translation of Agricola's "De   
   Re Metallica" by Herbert and Catherine Hoover.  It took both   
   Hoovers to do the job as a lot of the Latinized mining terms had   
   changed radically within a century of the original publication in   
   1545.  Herbert was a mining engineer and Catherine was a   
   Classical scholar.   
      
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