A Good Read   Author Susan Berg on what the 18th century read
for work and for fun.    Harmony Hunter: Hi, welcome to the
podcast. I'm Harmony Hunter. Have you ever wondered what the
Founding Fathers were reading? Author Susan Berg joins us today
to talk about the mechanics and the politics of the printing
office and how they shaped how the founding generation turned a
page. Susan, thank you for being here today.  Susan Berg: Thank
you, Harmony.  Harmony: Well, I wanted to think about what kind
of reading was being done in the 18th century. Books were not so
common and so easy to come by.  Susan: Not only were books not
as common. Now, you see them in a grocery store in the check out
line. You didn't find that in the 18th century. There were very
few sources of books. We could say that in Williamsburg, which
we probably know best, they had a printing office that also
functioned as a book store and they got many books that way as
well as from merchants in England that would ship them over to
other stores throu