A.J. Jacobs

Combing Through the White House

“Theodore Pappas’s book does two things brilliantly. First, you’ll learn surprising facts that will keep you busy at cocktail parties for the next century or two. Second, you’ll see the world through a clarifying new lens. Because hair is everywhere. Hair weaves (sorry) its way into everything from politics, religion, literature, and identity. You’ll never look at history—or the protein filaments on the top of people’s heads—the same way again.”