Dec 1, 2023
An award winning writer who has contributed to the Smithsonian,
Time and Vanity Fair Mark Wortman has also contributed to NPR and
the History Channel. He's taught at several universities, including
his alma mater, Princeton, and he served as an advisor for the film
The Millionaires Unit, U.S. Naval Aviators in the First World
War.
He's the author of several terrific books, including 1941 Fighting
the Shadow War A Divided America in a World at War, The
Millionaires Unit, The Aristocratic Flyboys Who Fought the Great
War, and American Airpower. The Bonfire, the Siege and Burning of
Atlanta, and the book we're going to discuss today, Admiral Hyman
Rickover, engineer of power.