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Richard Rhodes

Richard Rhodes

Richard Rhodes

Richard Rhodes is the author of numerous books and the winner of the Pulitzer Prize, the National Book Award, and the National Book Critics Circle Award. His articles have appeared in many national magazines. He graduated from Yale University and has received fellowships from the Ford Foundation, the National Endowment for the Arts, the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, and the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation.

Making of the Atomic Bomb will be released on June 12, 2012 in Trade Paperback
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Making of the Atomic Bomb will be released on June 01, 2012 in Audio Download, eAudio
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Excerpt:
Chapter 1 from DARK SUN
Jun 20, 2009
Excerpt:
Chapter 1 from Deadly Feasts
Jun 19, 2009
Excerpt:
Chapter 1 from Deadly Feasts
Jan 30, 2009
Deadly Feasts is now available in eAudio
Nov 10, 2008
DARK SUN is now available in eAudio
Nov 10, 2008
Deadly Feasts will be released on November 10, 2008 in eAudio
Nov 10, 2008
Deadly Feasts is now available in eAudio
Nov 10, 2008
Deadly Feasts will be released on December 01, 2004 in eAudio
Dec 01, 2004
Deadly Feasts is now available in eAudio
Dec 01, 2004
DARK SUN will be released on December 01, 2004 in eAudio
Dec 01, 2004
DARK SUN is now available in eAudio
Dec 01, 2004
Dark Sun will be released on December 01, 2004 in
Dec 01, 2004
Dark Sun is now available in
Dec 01, 2004
VISIONS OF TECHNOLOGY will be released on December 07, 2000 in Trade Paperback
Dec 07, 2000

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Los Alamos Monitor, February 8, 2012
...the film will include Robert Sherwin, who delivered the Oppenheimer memorial lecture in Los Alamos last year, and Richard Rhodes. Sherwin, along with Kai Bird, wrote the Pulitzer-prize winning biography, “American Prometheus: The Triumph and Tragedy of...
Blogcritics.org, February 3, 2012
...s Folly: The Life and Breakthrough Inventions of Hedy Lamarr, the Most Beautiful Woman in the World, historian Richard Rhodes, Pulitzer Prize-winner for 1988s The Making of the Atomic Bomb, Lamarrs poised preoccupation and absent-mindedness masked an...
Washington Times, January 30, 2012
...you.? ?Hedy?s Folly? is a bizarre story featuring a highly unlikely cast of characters. Pulitzer Prize-winning author Richard Rhodes, a researcher on nuclear matters, has written dual bios of the troubled and often dysfunctional Antheil and the...
Washington Times, January 27, 2012
...you.? ?Hedy?s Folly? is a bizarre story featuring a highly unlikely cast of characters. Pulitzer Prize-winning author Richard Rhodes, a researcher on nuclear matters, has written dual bios of the troubled and often dysfunctional Antheil and the...
Cleveland Live, January 26, 2012
...accurate, but others are so laughably bad that they almost crash the production. Grade: B- Hedy's Folly Richard Rhodes; read by Bernadette Dunne The gorgeous Viennese actress, billed as "the most beautiful woman in the world," waited years for the credit...
Onion AV Club, January 18, 2012
...Inventions Of Hedy Lamarr, The Most Beautiful Woman In The World is something of a misnomer: Pulitzer Prize-winner Richard Rhodes devotes as much of his novella-length history to American avant-garde composer George Antheil as to Hedy Lamarr, who served...
Home News Tribune, January 15, 2012
...in the making and containing new revelations about an already much-examined life." Hedy's Folly | By Richard Rhodes, Doubleday, 272 pp., $26.95, non-fiction Hedy Lamarr, Hollywood starlet and inventor of a torpedo guidance system during World War II? Who...
The Moderate Voice, August 7, 2011
...Hiroshima (John Hersey) Death in Life: Survivors of Hiroshima (Robert Jay Lifton) The Making of the Atomic Bomb (Richard Rhodes) The Decision to Drop the Atomic Bomb (Dennis D. Wainstock) And a movie, as well: Hiroshima Mon Amour (1960) These books...
Fantasy Book Critic, July 6, 2011
...prions, unless you count Jonathan Maberry's Patient Zero . I read (and loved, and was mentally scarred by) Richard Rhodes' Deadly Feasts , and that was pretty much all the horror I needed right then in my life. Q: What else do you like to read? Any...
Grog's Gamut, June 3, 2011
...was (so yep, thank you I will buy that copy of The Making of the Atomic Bomb by Richard Rhodes). I bought my cup of coffee, read a magazine, then sauntered off around the store, found a collection of William Goldman’s essays from Variety (The Big...
Leoniefennell's Blog, May 16, 2011
...about it, but I wanted to finish this first before I forget.” The memoir’s introduction is by Richard Rhodes, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of “The Making of the Atomic Bomb,” who was impressed by the determination of Chang’s mother — for...
The Center for Sustainable Practice in the Arts, April 30, 2011
...May 7, 10:00 a.m. – Interview on Stage: Edward Burtynsky Discusses His Groundbreaking Photographic Work With Richard Rhodes, Editor of Canadian Art. 11:00 a.m. – Kicking the Fossil Fuel Habit. Possibility and Necessity: Keynote by Tom Rand, Director...