School DaysDaniel Wolff's new book, How Lincoln Learned to Read: Twelve Americans & The Educations That Made Them is much more than an interesting study of twelve Americans' educational experiences; it is a look at the development of education in America and how twelve Americans learned what they needed to know.
From Benjamin Franklin, Abigail Adams, Abraham Lincoln, and Andrew Jackson to Sarah Winnemucca Hopkins (a Paiute Indian) to Henry Ford, W. E. B. DuBois, Hardenbergh's Belle (Sojourner Truth), Helen Keller, Rachel Carson, John F. Kennedy, and Elvis Presley -- Wolff describes how education, of many different types, led to hefty accomplishments.
The book comes equipped with inspiration and a lengthy, selected bibliography.
Post by library staff member Bev Simmons
