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Atomic John

The truck driver who reverse engineered the atomic bomb.

David Samuels New Yorker Dec 2008 40min Permalink

Arts History World

The Death of a Civil Servant

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

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The Man Who Turned off the Taps

Prohibition couldn’t have happened without Wayne B. Wheeler, who foisted temperance on a thirsty nation 90 years ago.

Daniel Okrent Smithsonian Permalink

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Tea and Sympathy

The city of Boston, the Tea Party movement, and the rightful heir to the American Revolution.

Jill Lepore New Yorker Apr 2010 25min Permalink

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