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A Good Education

Published July 23, 2009 at 5:00 AM PDT

Daniel Wolff's new book "How Lincoln Learned to Read: Twelve Great Americans and the Educations that Made Them Famous" argues that there are lessons in the formative years of famous Americans like Benjamin Franklin, Elvis Presley and Nevada's most famous Native American Sarah Winnemucca about what constitutes a "good education."

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