Richard M. Langworth

Youthful encounter

“Who’s that man on the horse?” I asked my father at the age of about sev­en. “That’s Lee, ” my dad said; “he led the South’s army in the Civ­il War.

He gave me a book for young peo­ple which I still have. Illus­trat­ed Minute Biogra­phies: 150 Fas­ci­nat­ing Life-sto­ries of Famous Peo­ple, from the Dawn of Civ­i­liza­tion to the Present Day, Dra­ma­tized with Por­traits and Scenes from Their Lives, by Willam A. DeWitt. It’s still avail­able and inex­pen­sive. It’s far out of date now, but still a fine read for the young.

I scoured that book—an equal-oppor­tu­ni­ty edu­ca­tion.…

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