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A New York Times Editors' Choice Pick

Jakub Prochv°zka has risen from small-time scientist to become the country's first astronaut

Only thirty were women

is now his full-fledged partner

Acclaimed for his writings on Malcolm X and Martin Luther King

Founders' Son books of the shaper A New York Times Editors'Abraham Lincoln grew up in the long shadow of the Founding Fathers. Seeking an intellectual and emotional replacement for his own taciturn father, Lincoln turned to the great men of the founding Washington, Paine, Jefferson and their great documents the Declaration of Independence, the Constitution for knowledge, guidance, inspiration, and purpose. Out of the power vacuum created by their passing, Lincoln emerged from among his peers as the true