The World in Books, by Kenneth C. Davis

52 Works of Great Short Nonfiction. 

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
Welcome to the WBZ Book Club. I'm Jordan Rich. Kenneth C.
Davis has just released a tome that makes sense for
this feature. It's called The World in Books fifty two
Works of Great Short Nonfiction, proving once again that there's
nothing like a good book. Davis, who wrote Great Short
Books A Year of Reading, dash briefly as fifty two
wonderful recommendations from the earliest days of the written word,

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ancient writings from the Bible and other religious texts, to
the works of the masters Plato, Dante, Aristotle, Machiavelli, Voltaire,
to writers in the modern era including James Baldwin and
Virginia Woolf, Eli Wizzel, Christopher Hitchins, Joan Dideon, Tony Morrison,
and the list goes on and on. Putting together a
list like this involving so many important scribes, the author,

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Kenneth C. Davis, says he hopes he's provided a rich
reservoir of contemplation, insight, inspiration, and perhaps even a glimmer
of truth called The World in Books fifty two Works
of Great Short Nonfiction. And that's the Book Club. WBZ,
Boston's news radio