Don’t Mess With Roy Cohn, by Ken Auletta
Don’t Mess With Roy Cohn, by Ken Auletta
If president-elect Donald Trump learned anything from his mentor Roy Cohn, it was this: punch first and never apologize.... Read more
22 Dec 2016
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26mins
The Plane at the Bottom of the Ocean, by Bucky McMahon
The Plane at the Bottom of the Ocean, by Bucky McMahon
The question is astonishingly simple: In the year 2015, with GPS and satellites and global surveillance everywhere all t... Read more
13 Dec 2016
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26mins
The Price of Being President, by Richard Ben Cramer
The Price of Being President, by Richard Ben Cramer
Published in 1992, Richard Ben Cramer’s What It Takes: The Way to the White House remains the richest and most unvarnish... Read more
6 Dec 2016
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23mins
The Old Man and the River, by Pete Dexter
The Old Man and the River, by Pete Dexter
Norman Maclean published A River Runs Through It when he was seventy-three, and only after his children implored him to ... Read more
28 Nov 2016
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22mins
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The Days of Wine and Pig Hocks, by Jim Harrison
The Days of Wine and Pig Hocks, by Jim Harrison
Jim Harrison, the novelist and poet who died earlier this year at the age of 78, had a gargantuan, fearless appetite tha... Read more
21 Nov 2016
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24mins
Martin Luther King Jr Is Still on the Case! by Garry Wills
Martin Luther King Jr Is Still on the Case! by Garry Wills
In 1968, just hours after Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated, the future Pulitzer Prize–winning author Garry Wills—... Read more
14 Nov 2016
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30mins
Love in the Time of Magic, by E. Jean Carroll
Love in the Time of Magic, by E. Jean Carroll
On November 7, 1991, Magic Johnson held a press conference announcing that he had contracted the HIV virus, effectively ... Read more
7 Nov 2016
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29mins
The Tinkerings of Robert Noyce, by Tom Wolfe
The Tinkerings of Robert Noyce, by Tom Wolfe
It was a meeting of two American masters: Robert Noyce, who, in inventing the integrated computer chip and founding Inte... Read more
31 Oct 2016
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25mins
The House That Thurman Munson Built, by Michael Paterniti
The House That Thurman Munson Built, by Michael Paterniti
Reggie Jackson once called himself “the straw that stirs the drink” but there was no question that Thurman Munson was th... Read more
24 Oct 2016
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26mins
The Crack-Up, by F. Scott Fitzgerald
The Crack-Up, by F. Scott Fitzgerald
In 1936, F. Scott Fitzgerald, then a struggling writer battling depression and alcoholism, published “The Crack-Up,” a r... Read more
17 Oct 2016
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33mins
