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Some other good ones, including a great series about Winston Churchill:
Mornings on Horseback - about Teddy Roosevelt by David McCullough
Truman - David McCullough
The Last Lion - series of books about Churchill. I forget the author.
All of Doris Kearns Goodwin books are excellent, as well. She's covered a lot of presidents.
Anything else and I'll visit the site manually if and when I remember. Requiring me to follow a blog's content announcements on a platform I don't use is a recipe for losing me as a potential fan. So you either need to be everywhere or nowhere. There's not much middle ground there.
When setting up a blog, an RSS feed should be built into most options or easy to add.
I've been a follower of Eastern Philosophy for 20+ years and have also read most major religious and philosophical works, but during my reading of this book I experienced Satori, Englightenment, Awakening, Nirvana, 'Receiving The Gospel', whatever you want to call it.
Oddly enough, it happened to a friend after their reading it, too.
I haven't been the same, in the best way possible, ever since.
Anthony was well-read and traveled and his background as an Indian, Jesuit Priest and practicing psychologist put him at the perfect intersection of experience to deliver such a life-changing work that encompasses religion, science, relationships, your psyche, career, money, philosophy, spirituality, etc.
It's telling and (to me) validating of his mastery of life that, after his death, he was excommunicated from the church due to his 'blasphemous' works.
The ebook and audiobook are available for free here: https://archive.org/details/Awareness-AnthonyDeMello