Stephen Case
Stephen Case, a retired lawyer, loves reading books, mostly nonfiction. Over the years, he has enjoyed service on both not-for-profit and for-profit boards of directors. In 2012, he and a co-author published Treacherous Beauty: Peggy Shippen, The Woman Behind Benedict Arnold's Plot To Betray America. He loves the mission of the Washington Independent Review of Books and all the neat, friendly people who work so hard and so well together to get it published.
8 entries by Stephen Case
The Franklin Stove: An Unintended American Revolution
By Joyce E. Chaplin
This excellent history covers far more than the Founder’s forays into home heating.
The Impossible Man: Roger Penrose and the Cost of Genius
By Patchen Barss
The pioneering physicist gets his due in this exceptional biography.
Ingenious: A Biography of Benjamin Franklin, Scientist
By Richard Munson
A mesmerizing account of the endlessly curious Founding Father.
Escape from Shadow Physics: The Quest to End the Dark Ages of Quantum Theory
By Adam Forrest Kay
A (mostly) clear look at an awfully murky field.
What the Taliban Told Me
By Ian Fritz
Eavesdropping on the enemy has a way of humanizing them.
Exploding the myths surrounding sanctified, small-town flyover country.
These Are the Plunderers: How Private Equity Runs ― and Wrecks ― America
By Gretchen Morgenson and Joshua Rosner
An impassioned, one-sided look at big-money behemoths.
The Matter of Everything: How Curiosity, Physics, and Improbable Experiments Changed the World
By Suzie Sheehy
A marvelous tale of particle beams and their harnessers.