Books Quote by Joseph Befumo

“Books serve to show a man that those original thoughts of his aren't very new after all.”   Abraham Lincoln”

— Rriiver Nyile

I read Mitch Daniels's book, 'Keeping the Republic,' several times.

— Eric Greitens

“What is novel is a president who wishes to maintain, while in office, a personal security force which during his campaign used force against…

— Timothy Snyder

“Still, my fascination with Buchanan did not abate, nor was I able, as the Seventies set in, to move the novel forward through the…

— John Updike

My daughter will be reading about Pat Buchanan in a history book someday, and I am hanging out fist-bumping with him and joking with…

— Willie Geist

“ 'Till America has learned to love literature not as an amusement, not as a mere doggerel to memorize in a college room, but…

— Matthew Pearl

A recommendation to scholars: Write only one book about Lincoln; give it your best shot, and then move on.

— Fred Kaplan

“Just because I haven't put a lot of thought into this book doesn't mean you shouldn't. I warn you to read this book carefully.…

— Stephen Colbert

“This consists in not taking a book into one’s hand merely because it is interesting the great public at the time — such as…

— Arthur Schopenhauer

“Lincoln had a masterful grasp of great subjects. He was able to look at events from all sides, so as to appreciate how they…

— Henry Ketcham

“If I could do this book properly it would be one of the really fine books and a truly American book. But I am…

— John Steinbeck

“Lincoln, considering a Cabinet nominee: "He is a Radical without the petulance and fretfulness of many radicals.”

— Doris Kearns Goodwin