Atomic John
The truck driver who reverse engineered the atomic bomb.
The truck driver who reverse engineered the atomic bomb.
David Samuels New Yorker Dec 2008 40min Permalink
An uneasy friendship forms in colonial Ceylon between the future husband of Virgina Woolf and a socially repulsive police magistrate.
Lev Grossman The Believer May 2010 25min Permalink
Prohibition couldn’t have happened without Wayne B. Wheeler, who foisted temperance on a thirsty nation 90 years ago.
The city of Boston, the Tea Party movement, and the rightful heir to the American Revolution.
Jill Lepore New Yorker Apr 2010 25min Permalink