This page is a list of the books that I feel are worth sharing, and a selection of the ones I am currently reading and have currently read.

Currently Reading

Stephen Miller, Conversation: A History of a Declining Art

Miller presents a well written history of an activity that is rarely thought about. In the 18th Century, conversation was viewed as an art form. According to James Boswell, "conversation is the traffick of the mind; for by exchanging ideas, we enrich one another".

Kevin J. Hayes, The Road to Monticello: The Life and Mind of Thomas Jefferson

This book chronicles, above all, the intellectual development of Thomas Jefferson. While most think of Jefferson as our third president, this achievement was not important enough for him to engrave it on his epithet. Above all, Jefferson was a gardener, a scientist, a philosopher, and like the rest of us, a human being. The good that Jefferson represents should be emulated by all of us. Any study of him is merited by that which we can take away and apply to our own lives, and this biography certainly provides ample examples.

Recently Read

Henry David Thoreau, Walden

Eduardo Galeano, The Open Veins of Latin America: Five Centuries of the Pillage of a Continent

John C. Chasteen, Americanos: Latin America's Struggle for Independence