Marilynne Robinson for Bookforum

Bob Dylan in America, by Sean Willentz—illustration for Bookforum

Archival art print available.

Garry Wills portrait for Bookforum, current issue.

“…argues that the prototype of the modern president is not Abraham Lincoln, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, or Ronald Reagan. It’s General Leslie Groves—the administrator of the Manhattan Project, which Wills says was the inadvertent template for today’s secret government and imperial presidency. And his reasoning will scare the hell out of you.”