The Professor & the Madman

An interesting tale behind the creation and legacy of the Oxford English Dictionary. I feel like the tale dragged a bit in the beginning while it set up the scene, but the middle and end of the book made up for it. I ultimately came away from the book feeling like Minor was treated terribly in his late years, both by the institution he spent much of his life in, and then later the institution he ended up in in the States. This is largely due to the misunderstanding of mental diseases in his era, but in some respects conditions haven't improved much today.