Bookends: Benet’s to Benjamin and More “Charlemagne”. Turn the page back. “Charlie Chaplin”. Turn the pages forward. “Chaucer”. Skip a few pages. “Darwin”. Close your eyes and grab a page. “Abraham Lincoln”. I received Benet’s “The Reader’s Encyclopedia when I was maybe eleven or twelve years old. I stare back into those twelve impressionable years. More

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