WHAT have you finished reading recently? James Buchanan, Jean H. Baker.

WHAT are you reading now? Bosom Friends: The Intimate World of James Buchanan and Willliam Rufus King, Thomas Balcerski, and 1858 by Bruce Chadwick

WHAT are you reading next? Probably one of my Stephen Douglas-related histories.

Arguing until Doomsday: Stephen Douglas, Jefferson Davis, and the Struggle for American Democracy, Michael Woods

Year of Meteors: Stephen Douglas, Abraham Lincoln, and the Election that Brought on the Civil War, Douglas Egerton

Chorus of the Union: How Abraham Lincoln and Stephen Douglas Set Aside Their Rivalry to Save the Nation, Edward McClelland.

Yes, I am in a strange reading frenzy at the moment, solidly locked in to the two decades preceding the Civil War. On the bright side, it’s corrected that appalling lead fiction gained over nonfiction back when CJ Box hijacked my reading year.