Then I'm going to be working on a college textbook and trade book, which is the history of the United States, that gives serious attention to the history of science and technology. I think it must be something about time . We are always remembering. We don't know where we are if we don't have some idea of how we got here. And, indeed, by stories.
People like to get their lessons in the form of stories.
The book obviously has been a bigger success than anything I wrote previously. It has a broader readership and also got on The New York Times top 11 list. My 15 minutes of fame has stretched to 20. But life was OK before and will be OK after because I just love to read history. I love being able to find a passage and learn something I didn't know.