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Glorious CountryBook

by Victoria Johnson

Who uses, recommends or left Glorious Country, in their own words: each a verbatim quote with a link to where it was said.

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Jason Zweig
Wall Street Journal investing columnist and editor of the revised edition of Benjamin Graham's The Intelligent Investor.
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I loved this historical biography of America's greatest landscape painter, and not just because I have an intense personal interest in Church. Johnson's writing is luminously beautiful, her assiduous research never impedes the narrative, and the illustrations are spectacular.

Annotated summer reading list; his own key marks a book he has read in full, one he has read enough of to recommend, and one he has only skimmed. Amazon links in the post are affiliate-tagged.

2026-07-14·jasonzweig.com ↗

Every entry is a verbatim quote and a link to the public post it came from. Nothing is paraphrased. If it is not on record somewhere public, it is not here.

The verdict is what they actually said: loved and liked are explicit; recommended means they told others to get it; uses means they only say they use it; read is a book on their public shelf with no verdict; mixed and disliked are kept too.

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