The Know-It-All: One Man's Humble Quest to Become the Smartest Person in the World by A.J. Jacobs

The Know-It-All: One Man's Humble Quest to Become the Smartest Person in the World

A.J. Jacobs

423 pages first pub 2004 (editions)

nonfiction biography memoir reflective medium-paced

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Part 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. 33,000 Pages44 Million Words10 Bil...

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