The Know It All: One Man’s Humble Quest To Become The Smartest Person In The World

Author: A.J. Jacobs
33,000 PAGES44 MILLION WORDS10 BILLION YEARS OF HISTORY1 OBSESSED MANPart memoir and part education (or lack thereof), The Know-It-All chronicles NPR contributor A.J. Jacobs’s hilarious, enlightening, and seemingly impossible quest to read the Encyclopaedia Britannica from A to Z.To fill the ever-widening gaps in his Ivy League education, A.J. Jacobs sets for himself the d….Read More
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