Now in its third printing!

"Reads like a novel."
New York Times Book Review

One of five best books on American moguls
Wall Street Journal

One of the Ten Best Biographies 2010
Booklist

Click here to see this and other reviews from the Washington Post, Los Angeles Times, San Francisco Chronicle, St. Louis Post-Dipatch, Buffalo News, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, Publishers Weekly, Kirkus and more.

Book-of-the-Month Club Alternate Selection

• Watch a NewsHour interview.
• Watch a CSPAN show.
• Watch a Book Studio interview.
• Watch a speech at the Library of Congress.
• Listen to an interview with Lewis Lapham.
• Listen to an interview with Gary Shapiro.
• Listen to an interview with Bill Thompson.
• Listen to a recording of voices from 1889!

Join me and 70 other authors at the National Book Festival Sept. 25 in Washington. DC

Photograph by Michael Mudd.
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