Our Biggest Experiment by Alice Bell

Author:Alice Bell
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Catapult
Published: 2021-07-02T00:00:00+00:00

*The Prize is one of those doorstops of Pulitzer-winning books that, whilst comprehensive, requires a huge time investment from readers. I recommend looking up the TV series based on the book first; then you can read the full thing if it piques your interest.

* Robert soon resented Ludwig’s intrusion into his find and went back to Sweden. Their brother Alfred stuck to the family business of the arms trade, inventing dynamite. When, over a decade later, in 1888, Ludwig died of a heart attack on holiday on the French Riviera, some newspapers confused the brothers and reported the death of Alfred, who was then put in the odd position of reading his own obituary while grieving the sudden death of his brother. Brooding over the negative way he was described (the “dynamite king"), he changed his will to establish prizes to honor the best of human endeavor, so the Nobel name would forever be associated with good.

* The term “muckraking” refers to investigative, often reform-minded journalism that emerged at the start of the twentieth century in the U.S. The term itself didn’t come until the practice was already reasonably well established. In 1906, Theodore Roosevelt complained that some journalists seemed to prefer to wallow in the mud rather than support his policies and compared them to a character in The Pilgrim’s Progress who could look nowhere but down to the rake he used to move muck.

* The British Petroleum Company was, before the First World War, an arm of Deutsche Bank, built to sell Romanian oil to the British market. When the British government declared war on Germany, it took control of the company, soon selling it on to Anglo-Persian, which later drew on the name when it wanted a rebrand in the mid-1950s.

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