David Plotz

A fascinating study of a radical experiment in human breeding describes the recruitment of Nobel Prize winners and other accomplished men as donors to a genius sperm bank, whose mission was to breed a cadre of brilliant scientists and leaders, profiling both a number of the donors and the children fathered through the sperm bank. Reprint. 25,000 first printing.

The Curious History of the Nobel Prize Sperm Bank

The Genius Factory

An irreverent tour of the Bible as read by a journalist traces his mixed-heritage education, his discovery of lesser-known stories from the Old and New Testaments, and the theological conundrums he explored throughout his reading.

the bizarre, hilarious, disturbing, marvelous, and inspiring things I learned when I read every single word of the Bible

Good Book

"Good Book" is what happens when a regular guy actually reads the whole book on which his religion, his culture, and his world are based. The result is an irreverent, enthralling journey through the world's most important work of literature--the Bible.

“Hilarious. . . . It’s Cliff Notes for Scripture—screenplay by Plotz, story by God. . . . In the end, though, the book is made by the spirit of the writer.” — The New York Times Book Review “Like the Bible itself, Good Book contains multitudes—it is by turns thought-provoking, funny, enlightening and moving.” — A. J. Jacobs, author of The Year of Living Biblically “Plotz is a genius writer.” — Franklin Foer, author of How Soccer Explains the World A whip-smart, laugh-out-loud tour through the most important book in the world, a book most people have never read: the Bible.

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