The Know-It-All: One Man's Humble Quest to Become the Smartest Person in the World, A. K. JacobsPart memoir and part education (or lack thereof), The Know It All chronicles NPR contributor A. J. Jacobs's hilarious, enlightening, and seemingly impossible quest to read the Encyclopaedia Britannica from A to Z. 33,000 PAGES 44 MILLION WORDS 10 BILLION YEARS OF HISTORY 1 OBSESSED MAN To fill the ever widening gaps in his Ivy League education, A. J. Jacobs sets for himself the daunting task of reading all thirty two volumes of the Encyclopaedia

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