Tao Te Ching

“his Autobiography... the first American addition to world literature—probably the most widely read work by an American after the Declaration of Independence—did create a new and decisively modern form of literature, the success saga... the inchoate work, survived and became popular through the centuries and across the world, a model for a whole genus of modern writing... appropriately ends in mid sentence”

— Daniel J. Boorstin 1914 – 2004 CE
American intellectual Paul Revere
from Creators—Heroes of the Imagniation, 1992