"In this contemplation of his friend's life, Calvin Trillin attempts to chart the mysterious course of a career that had seemed full of limitless promise. He al

IT SEEMED AS IF EVERYONE WAS A SPY! The political situation in the 21st century was coming to the boil: one man, a scientist, held what might be the important k

Not since Robert McNamara has a secretary of defense been so hated by the military and derided by the public, yet played such a critical role in national securi

The stories in this collection imaginatively take readers far across the universe, into the very core of their beings, to the realm of the Gods, and to the mome