Richard Rhodes
Richard Rhodes is the author of many works of history, fiction, and letters. His book The Making of the Atomic Bomb won a Pulitzer Prize in nonfiction, a National Book Award, and a National Book Critics Circle Award. Richard lectures widely on subjects related to his books, which run the gamut from nuclear history to the story of mad cow disease to a study of how people become violent to a biography of the 19th-century artist John James Audubon.
Richard Rhodes is the author of many works of history, fiction, and letters. His book The Making of the Atomic Bomb won a Pulitzer Prize in nonfiction, a National Book Award, and a National Book Critics Circle Award. Richard lectures widely on subjects related to his books, which run the gamut from nuclear history to the story of mad cow disease to a study of how people become violent to a biography of the 19th-century artist John James Audubon. See less
Richard Rhodes's Featured Books
Richard Rhodes book reviews
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Deadly Feasts: Tracking the Secrets of a Terrifying New Plague
Human Mad Cow Disease Exposed
Deadly Feasts by Richard Rhodes is a excellent comprehensive summary of how mad cow disease was exposed to humans. Richard Rhodes exposes how government systems failed to act appropriately and ... Read More
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Hedy's Folly: The Life and Breakthrough Inventions of Hedy Lamarr, the Most Beautiful Woman in the World
A Beautiful Engineer!
I am an engineer, a EE at that. This person is also an engineer, but one would be taken aback it she were in any class with other students at my school. We had no women in classes then. And her ... Read More
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Masters of Death: The SS-Einsatzgruppen and the Invention of the Holocaust
Holocaust
by Cole, Oct 4, 2007
Rhodes? book is a must have/must read for everyone, and a necessary tool to combat the holocaust deniers who remain among us. Sadly, while it contains observations and testimony that is revealing to ... Read More