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 a major figure in nineteenth-century religious history. He was one of the major protagonists of the Oxford or Tractarian Movement within the Church of England whose...