Eric JaffeEric Jaffe is the author of The King's Best Highway: The Lost History of the Boston Post Road, the Route That Made America, which won the U.S. Postal Service's 2012 Moroney Award for Scholarship in Postal History. He's a former Web editor of Smithsonan magazine and now writes for the Atlantic Cities, a site devoted to urban life run by the Atlantic magazine. His work has also appeared in the Los Angeles Times, Slate, Science News, and Boston magazine. Read More Read Less