Richard Rhodes, Author . Knopf $27.50 (352p) ISBN 978-0-375-40900-4
This is not for the squeamish. Rhodes, a Pulitzer winner for The Making of the Atomic Bomb, has pulled together a mountain of research on the mass murders of Jews perpetrated by the Einsatzgruppen—special task forces—organized by the...
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Richard Rhodes, Author . Knopf $28.95 (400p) ISBN 978-0-375-41413-8
This is the third volume in a history of nuclear weaponry that began with the award-winning The Making of the Atomic Bomb
, but despite its subtitle, this installment might also be described as a chronicle of the unmaking of the arms race....
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Richard Rhodes, Author Touchstone $18.95 (736p) ISBN 978-0-684-82414-7
Rhodes epic history of the hydrogen bomb and the Cold War arms race spent two weeks on PW's bestseller list. (Aug.)
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Richard Rhodes, Simon & Schuster, $30 (352p) ISBN 978-0-307-26754-2
In this absorbing conclusion to his chronicle of the nuclear age, Pulitzer Prize–winning historian Rhodes (The Making of the Atomic Bomb) describes the post–Cold War shift in the status of nuclear weapons from existential menace to alarming but...
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Richard Rhodes, Author Touchstone Books $10 (0p) ISBN 978-0-671-74725-1
Rhodes, whose mother committed suicide when he was a year old, recalls how he and his older brother were physically and emotionally devastated by an abusive stepmother and their father's complicity with her. ``He explores the minefield of his...
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Richard Rhodes, Author Alfred A. Knopf $26.95 (384p) ISBN 978-0-375-40249-4
What transforms an ordinary person into a violent criminal? Not genetic inheritance or low self-esteem or coming from a violent subculture, answers Pulitzer Prize--winning author Rhodes (The Making of the Atomic Bomb, etc.), but rather a process of...
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Richard Rhodes, Author Simon & Schuster $19.45 (0p) ISBN 978-0-671-63647-0
To write this book, Rhodes, whose The Making of the Atomic Bomb won the NBA, NBCC and Pulitzer prizes, spent almost a year on the family farm in central Missouri owned by the pseudonymous 46-year-old Tom Bauer. Meticulous, exhaustive, at times...
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Richard Rhodes, Author Simon & Schuster $22.45 (928p) ISBN 978-0-671-44133-3
The breadth and scope of this gripping narrative is almost as impressive as the story itself. Rhodes ( Looking for America describes the theoretical origins of the bomb, the lab experiments, the building of the prototype, the test at Alamagordo, the
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Richard Rhodes, Author Touchstone Books $9.95 (0p) ISBN 978-0-671-72507-5
The author of the Pulitzer Prize-winning The Making of the Atomic Bomb spent almost a year on a central Missouri family farm. According to PW , this journal's ``meticulous, exhaustive, at times excessive descriptions'' illumine the planting and...
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Richard Rhodes, Author Viking Books $17.5 (0p) ISBN 978-0-670-85207-9
Nuclear power accounts for 75% of France's electrical output. The figure is 27% in Japan, whose nuclear power plants are more efficient and safer than their U.S. counterparts, which generate approximately 20% of the nation's electricity; the...
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Richard Rhodes, Author William Morrow & Company $23 (229p) ISBN 978-0-688-14095-3
Rhodes (The Making of the Atomic Bomb) has enjoyed a long career as a magazine writer and as an author, mainly of verity--his preferred term for nonfiction--but also of some (less heralded) novels. This book has the virtues and defects of a long...
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Richard Rhodes, Author Touchstone Books $14.95 (0p) ISBN 978-0-671-65719-2
This winner of the NBCC, NBA and Pulitzer prizes is being published to coincide with the 50th anniversaries of the bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki and the hardcover publication of Rhodes's new book, Dark Sun: The Making of the Hydrogen Bomb.
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Richard Rhodes, Author Simon & Schuster $24 (256p) ISBN 978-0-684-82360-7
""The U.S. still has a chance to avoid a BSE [bovine spongiform encephalopathy] epidemic"" like the outbreak of ""mad cow disease"" that has ravaged the British cattle industry, warns this explosive report by Pulitzer Prize-winning writer Rhodes (The
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Richard Rhodes, Author, Bill Greer, Illustrator University Press of Kansas $19.95 (340p) ISBN 978-0-7006-0499-9
Kansas-born Rhodes ( A Hole in the World: An American Boyhood ) updates his first book by adding four new essays to the 12 best of his original pieces about life in the Midwest. ``A mosaic of chapters that trace, explore, examine with mature...
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Richard Rhodes, Author, Ginger Rhodes, With William Morrow & Company $25 (368p) ISBN 978-0-688-14096-0
This eloquent, moving forum grew out of the letters Pulitzer Prize-winning historian Richard Rhodes received in response to his 1990 memoir, A Hole in the World, his account of surviving childhood abuse inflicted by his stepmother. He and his wife...
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Richard Rhodes, Author . Knopf $28.95 (528p) ISBN 978-0-375-41412-1
Born in 1785 in Saint Domingue (now Haiti), the bastard son of a French naval officer and a chambermaid, Audubon was taken to France by his father and then sent to America in 1803 to escape conscription into Napoleon's army. He began drawing...
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Richard Rhodes. Doubleday, $30 (288p) ISBN 978-0-385-54555-6
Pulitzer–winner Rhodes (The Making of the Atomic Bomb) does justice to “one of the... greatest biologists of the twentieth century” in this brilliant biography. Using interviews with E.O. Wilson and his colleagues, Rhodes balances Wilson’s vast...
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Richard Rhodes, Author Simon & Schuster $17.5 (0p) ISBN 978-0-671-78227-6
``I'm talking about the part of relationships no one ever talks about,'' asserts the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Making of the Atomic Bomb --and the ghostwriter of two sex manuals--near the beginning of this detailed erotic history. By the...
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Richard Rhodes, Author Touchstone Books $10 (0p) ISBN 978-0-671-87072-0
. Through personal anecdotes, Rhodes unveils the erotic aspect of relationships. QPB alternate . (Sept.)
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Richard Rhodes. Simon & Schuster, $30 (320p) ISBN 978-1-4516-9621-9
Historian Rhodes (who won a Pulitzer Prize for 1986’s The Making of the Atomic Bomb) combines numerous memoirs to provide a ground-level view of the Spanish Civil War (1936-1939). The struggle between Republicans and Franco-led Nationalists was...
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Richard Rhodes. Simon & Schuster, $30 (465p) ISBN 978-1-5011-0535-7
Pulitzer- and National Book Award–winner Rhodes (The Making of the Atom Bomb) offers a sweeping history of the diverse sources of energy—from wood to wind—in all its miraculous, destructive glory. Rhodes delivers brilliantly on the inner workings of
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