John Henry was the strongest man who ever worked on the railroad. He hammered through rock. He hammered spikes of steel. One day, he hammered so hard, he won a contest with a drilling machine!
From the bestselling, two-time Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Underground Railroad and The Nickel Boys, a novel that is "funny and wise and sumptuously written" (Jonathan Franzen, The New York...
"John Henry Newman (1801-90) was brought up in the Church of England in the Evangelical tradition. An Oxford graduate and Fellow of Oriel College, he was appointed Vicar of St Mary's Oxford in 1828;...