American Book Award

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    “No slogan of democracy; no battle cry of freedom is more striving then the American parent’s simple statement which all of you have heard many times: ‘I want my child to go to college.’”
    —Lyndon Baines Johnson (1908–1973)

    “A book full of brilliance imparts some of it even to its opponents.”
    —Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900)

    “The award of a pure gold medal for poetry would flatter the recipient unduly: no poem ever attains such carat purity.”
    —Robert Graves (1895–1985)