Stacked up on the night stand next to his bed, Rocky Kolb, a cosmologist at Fermilab in Batavia, Illinois, and professor of astronomy and astrophysics at the University of Chicago, has a heap of books he has finished but is too lazy to put in his bulging bookcases. Then there is a pile he is reading now, and a stack he intends to read when he has time: sometime in January 2023, he says.
He’s a fan of historical biographies and has just finished two by Joseph Ellis about founders of the US: American Sphinx: The character of Thomas Jefferson (Vintage, 1998) and Founding Brothers (Vintage,…
