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Uncle Tom's CabinBook

by Harriet Beecher Stowe

Who uses, recommends or left Uncle Tom's Cabin, in their own words: each a verbatim quote with a link to where it was said.

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Tyler Cowen
Economist at George Mason University and co-author of the blog Marginal Revolution.
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A book—I think it was very, very famous in it’s time, one of the best sellers of its century, but people have stopped reading it, and that is Harriet Beecher Stowe, Uncle Tom’s Cabin, which is a book about migration, a book about travel, a book about race, obviously a book about slavery, a book about America in the middle of the nineteenth century.

The Tim Ferriss Show #436, "Books I've Loved — Maria Popova and Tyler Cowen" (Cowen's own segment); a solo segment on books they love. The guest's own words in the transcript Tim Ferriss published on tim.blog.

2020-06-15·tim.blog ↗

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