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Joel Achenbach

Joel Achenbach is a reporter for The Washington Post, and the author of six previous books, including The Grand Idea, Captured by Aliens and Why Things Are. He started the Washington Post's first blog, Achenblog, and has worked on the newspaper's national Style magazine and Outlook staffs. He regularly contributes science articles to National Geographic. A native of Gainesville, Florida and a 1982 graduate of Princeton University, he lives in Washington, D.C. with his wife and three children.

Joel Achenbach's Books

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A Hole at the Bottom of the Sea
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A Hole at the Bottom of the Sea The Race to Kill the BP Oil Gusher By: Joel Achenbach
This edition: Hardcover, 288 pages
Publication date: April 5, 2011
It was a technological crisis in an alien realm: a blown-out oil well in mile-deep water in the Gulf of Mexico. For the engineers who had to kill the well, this was like Apollo 13, a crisis no one saw coming, and one of untold...
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Other Formats: eBook, Trade Paperback
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The Grand Idea
The Grand Idea George Washington's Potomac and the Race to the West By: Joel Achenbach
This edition: Trade Paperback, 384 pages
Publication date: May 24, 2005
The Grand Idea follows George Washington in the critical period immediately after the War of Independence. The general had great hopes for his young nation, but also grave fears. He worried that the United States was so...
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It Looks Like a President Only Smaller
It Looks Like a President Only Smaller Trailing Campaign 2000 By: Joel Achenbach
This edition: eBook, 192 pages
Publication date: September 19, 2001
It Looks Like a President Only Smaller is the hilarious, eviscerating diary of one of the most amazing contests in American political history -- from the presidential primaries in New Hampshire, to the fat-cat convention...
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