A Rebel’s Reading List

Commentary
Here is a bitter irony for you. Just as the world’s greatest literature of all ages became available to every person, mostly at no charge, and with only a search and a click, it seems like most people have lost interest. What incredible and tragic timing!
For a large part of the 18th and 19th centuries, as literacy spread with the rise of prosperity, vast numbers of people would have done anything to have a library on the level of Thomas Jefferson’s own. To possess domestic access to books and the ideas contained therein belonged only to the rich….