Joel Achenbach's Books
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A Hole at the Bottom of the SeaThe greatest engineering drama of our time, this is the story of the men who risked their lives to plug the leaking oil well in the Gulf of Mexico.Read More -
The Grand IdeaThe Grand Idea follows George Washington in the critical period immediately after the War of Independence. The general had great hopes for his young...Read More
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It Looks Like a President Only SmallerIt Looks Like a President Only Smaller is the hilarious, eviscerating diary of one of the most amazing contests in American political history -- from...Read More
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Authors on the Web
Washington Post, January 21, 2013
...other events in the nation’s capital today. Our writers on the scene include: EJ Dionne, Dana Milbank, Joel Achenbach, Kathleen Parker, Charles (“Chuck”) Lane, Ed Rogers and Alexandra Petri. Most of the rest of us, like many of you, will be...
Washington Post, January 17, 2013
...that the Conversational will appear as a blog, with a decent-size typeface and the potential for running pictures. Joel Achenbach’s Achenblog will give you an idea. While the comment section is easier to work with than in our current form, it’s still...
Washington Post, November 30, 2012
...We're shifting blogging software again, this time to something much easier than the one we've been using for the last couple of years, which famously requires that a blogger solve quadratic equations before posting a simple paragraph. This old software...
Institute of Physics, November 29, 2012
...the 1970s; a sequel from Chad Orzel, this time explaining how to teach relativity to your dog; and Joel Achenbach’s book about the Deepwater Horizon oil spill. George Szpiro’s colourful history of how physicists got into the financial industry is...
Yahoo! News, July 6, 2012
...it The God Particle! by Dr. Dave Goldberg by Jorge Cham, via Nathan Yau by Brian Vastag and Joel Achenbach by Julian Champkin by Ian Steadman by Michele Banks by Xeni Jardin Higgs! by Phil Plait Higgs Boson: the jokes edition by Khalil A. Cassimally by...
Columbian.com, June 29, 2012
...sketched this drawing, titled "The Evolution of Interstellar Flight," when he was in his early teens. By Joel Achenbach, The Washington Post Tweet More like this Astronomer and author Carl Sagan "made science cool," historian Leonard Bruno said....
Washington Post, January 17, 2013
...that the Conversational will appear as a blog, with a decent-size typeface and the potential for running pictures. Joel Achenbach’s Achenblog will give you an idea. While the comment section is easier to work with than in our current form, it’s still...
Politico, January 14, 2013
...its fundraising goal, reports Nicholas Confessore of The New York Times. http://nyti.ms/13oF9Is The Washington Post’s Joel Achenbach, Scott Higham and Sari Horwitz explain how the National Rifle Association rose to power. http://wapo.st/Xu0cF4 ...
PBS, January 14, 2013
...NewsHour will interview Keene on Tuesday. (If you have 20 minutes, read crafted by the Washington Post's Joel Achenbach, Scott Higham and Sari Horwitz.) With so much national focus on this issue, Maryland Democratic Gov. Martin O'Malley will push for...
Washington Post, January 14, 2013
...R-Mo.) seat. Must-reads: “How NRA’s true believers converted a marksmanship group into a mighty gun lobby” — Joel Achenbach, Scott Higham and Sari Horwitz, Washington Post “The House GOP can’t be beat: It’s worse than...
Lucianne.com, January 13, 2013
...French Somalia Mission PJ Media, by Bridget Johnson Posted By:Dreadnought, 1/13/2013 10:00:13 PM President Obama informed Congress Sunday evening that U.S. forces were present in Somalia on Friday for a French raid to rescue a hostage from...
