Philip Baruth is a novelist and an award-winning commentator for Vermont Public Radio. His last book, The X President, which traced the attempts of a 109-year-old Bill Clinton to rewrite his historical legacy, was selected as a New York Times Notable Book of 2003. He is a graduate of Brown University with an MA and PhD from University of California (Irvine). He teaches writing and the 18th century novel at the University of Vermont in Burlington.
30th July, 1763. Two striking figures part the heaving crowd at London Bridge. Peddlers cease their haggling, ferrymen grow quiet, beggars stop and stare. Even the stink of the Thames seems to fade in the presence of Dr Samuel Johnson and James Boswell - history's most famous friends....
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