The Know-It-All: One Man's Humble Quest to Become the Smartest Person in the World Lee Calcote where he investigates cocaine dens

where he investigates cocaine dens and invents lurid scandals and gruesome deaths that he sells to newspapers as his own life becomes more outrageous than his phony press reports

now a near-retired magistrate

yet inextricably linked by a shared past -- try to find their places within the complex web of social expectations for young women in the 1930s

as well as extensive and more accurate filmographies

He was born on the base of the mountain

The Know-It-All: One Man's Humble Quest to Become the Smartest Person in the World Lee Calcote where he investigates cocaine densPart memoir and part education (or lack thereof), The Know It All chronicles NPR contributor A. J. Jacobs's hilarious, enlightening, and seemingly impossible quest to read the Encyclopaedia Britannica from A to Z. 33,000 PAGES 44 MILLION WORDS 10 BILLION YEARS OF HISTORY 1 OBSESSED MAN To fill the ever widening gaps in his Ivy League education, A. J. Jacobs sets for himself the daunting task of reading all thirty two volumes of the Encyclopaedia