A.J. Jacobs, author, The Year of Living Constitutionally: One Man’s Humble Quest to Follow the Constitution’s Original Meaning
Saturday, 5/11 2:00pm
Winsor Room
Cosponsors Radnor Historical Society and Main Point Books
The New York Times bestselling author of The Year of Living Biblically, humorist A.J. Jacobs will talk about his wildly entertaining book, which is also deeply insightful about the promise and problems of living under a political order framed almost a quarter of a millennium ago. Books will be available for purchase from Main Point Books at the author event.
…from the author’s website…linked below:
A.J. Jacobs is an author, journalist, lecturer and human guinea pig. He has written four New York Times bestsellers that combine memoir, science, humor and a dash of self-help.
He is also editor at large at Esquire magazine, a commentator on NPR and a columnist for Mental Floss magazine and more…
His first book is called The Know-It-All: One Man’s Humble Quest to Become the Smartest Person in the World (Simon & Schuster, 2004). The memoir — which spent two months on the New York Times bestseller list — chronicles the 18 months Jacobs spent reading the entire Encyclopedia Britannica in a quest to learn everything in the world. It was praised by Time magazine, Newsweek, Vanity Fair, USAToday, Janet Maslin in the New York Times and AJ’s uncle Henry on Amazon.com.
After trying to improve his mind, he turned to his spirit. The Year of Living Biblically: One Man’s Humble Quest to Follow the Bible as Literally as Possible (2007) tells of his attempt to follow the hundreds of rules in the Good Book. It spent three months on the NYT bestseller list, and was praised by Publishers Weekly, Kirkus Reviews, The New York Times Book Review, the Los Angeles Times, USA Today and others. It appeared on the cover of the evangelical magazine Relevant, but was also featured in Penthouse. (Jacobs is proud to be a uniter, not a divider).
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