Reviews
Advance Praise for Hedy's Folly : "The author of The Twilight of the Bomb (2010) returns with the surprising story of a pivotal invention produced during World War II by a pair of most unlikely inventors-an avant-garde composer and the world's most glamorous movie star....A faded blossom of a story, artfully restored to bright bloom ."- Kirkus Reviews " If the subtitle of this book- The Life and Breakthrough Inventions of Hedy Lamarr, the Most Beautiful Woman in the World -doesn't make you want to read, nothing we say is likely to change your mind . But we will add this much: Rhodes, who has written about everything from atomic power to sex to John James Audubon, is apparently incapable of writing a bad book and most of what he does is absolutely superior, including this tale that has Nazi weapons, Hollywood stars, 20th century classical music, and the earliest versions of digital wireless."- The Daily Beast Praise for Richard Rhodes: The Making of the Nuclear Age (four volumes) "Every age finds the writers it needs, and the nuclear age has found Richard Rhodes."-Jonathan Schell, The Nation "Rhodes deserves considerable praise for his four books. He writes with remarkable confidence and clarity about these terrible devices. He tells stories well. He loads his text with interesting facts. His technical command is impressive."-Nicholas Thompson, New York Times Book Review "No one writes better about nuclear history than Rhodes does, ably combining a scholar's attention to detail with a novelist's devotion to character and pacing . . . The ingenuity and progressive spirit he reveals inspire optimism."-George Perkovich, The Washington Post "This long, rich book [ The Making of the Atomic Bomb ]. . . is the comprehensive history of the bomb, and it is also a work of literature."-Tracy Kidder, John James Audubon: The Making of an American "Rhodes has managed to do for Audubon what Audubon did for birds. . . in this splendid biography Rhodes has produced nothing less than a portrait of the United States in its formative years."-Jonathan Rosen, New York Times Book Review "More than a mere biography: it is a comprehensive history of a man and his era. . . . Rhodes breathes life again into the world in which Audubon lived."- Avedis Hadjian, Los Angeles Times Book Review Masters of Death: The SS Einsatzgruppen and the Invention of the Holocaust "Riveting history. . . Unrelenting."-Jack Fischel, The Weekly Standard "Through his fine and accessible account, Rhodes deepens our sense of the Holocaust's utter evil."-Walter Reich, New York Times Book Review "This is an important and enormously powerful book." -Elie Wiesel, Praise for Richard Rhodes: The Making of the Nuclear Age (four volumes) "Every age finds the writers it needs, and the nuclear age has found Richard Rhodes."-Jonathan Schell, The Nation "Rhodes deserves considerable praise for his four books. He writes with remarkable confidence and clarity about these terrible devices. He tells stories well. He loads his text with interesting facts. His technical command is impressive."-Nicholas Thompson, New York Times Book Review "No one writes better about nuclear history than Rhodes does, ably combining a scholar's attention to detail with a novelist's devotion to character and pacing . . . The ingenuity and progressive spirit he reveals inspire optimism."-George Perkovich, The Washington Post "This long, rich book [ The Making of the Atomic Bomb ]. . . is the comprehensive history of the bomb, and it is also a work of literature."-Tracy Kidder, John James Audubon: The Making of an American "Rhodes has managed to do for Audubon what Audubon did for birds. . . in this splendid biography Rhodes has produced nothing less than a portrait of the United States in its formative years."-Jonathan Rosen, New York Times Book Review "More than a mere biography: it is a comprehensive history of a man and his era. . . . Rhodes breathes life again into the world in which Audubon lived."- Avedis Hadjian, Los Angeles Times Book Review Masters of Death: The SS Einsatzgruppen and the Invention of the Holocaust "Riveting history. . . Unrelenting."-Jack Fischel, The Weekly Standard "Through his fine and accessible account, Rhodes deepens our sense of the Holocaust's utter evil."-Walter Reich, New York Times Book Review "This is an important and enormously powerful book." -Elie Wiesel, Advance Praise for Hedy's Folly : " If the subtitle of this book- The Life and Breakthrough Inventions of Hedy Lamarr, the Most Beautiful Woman in the World -doesn't make you want to read, nothing we say is likely to change your mind . But we will add this much: Rhodes, who has written about everything from atomic power to sex to John James Audubon, is apparently incapable of writing a bad book and most of what he does is absolutely superior, including this tale that has Nazi weapons, Hollywood stars, 20th century classical music, and the earliest versions of digital wireless."- The Daily Beast Praise for Richard Rhodes: The Making of the Nuclear Age (four volumes) "Every age finds the writers it needs, and the nuclear age has found Richard Rhodes."-Jonathan Schell, The Nation "Rhodes deserves considerable praise for his four books. He writes with remarkable confidence and clarity about these terrible devices. He tells stories well. He loads his text with interesting facts. His technical command is impressive."-Nicholas Thompson, New York Times Book Review "No one writes better about nuclear history than Rhodes does, ably combining a scholar's attention to detail with a novelist's devotion to character and pacing . . . The ingenuity and progressive spirit he reveals inspire optimism."-George Perkovich, The Washington Post "This long, rich book [ The Making of the Atomic Bomb ]. . . is the comprehensive history of the bomb, and it is also a work of literature."-Tracy Kidder, John James Audubon: The Making of an American "Rhodes has managed to do for Audubon what Audubon did for birds. . . in this splendid biography Rhodes has produced nothing less than a portrait of the United States in its formative years."-Jonathan Rosen, New York Times Book Review "More than a mere biography: it is a comprehensive history of a man and his era. . . . Rhodes breathes life again into the world in which Audubon lived."- Avedis Hadjian, Los Angeles Times Book Review Masters of Death: The SS Einsatzgruppen and the Invention of the Holocaust "Riveting history. . . Unrelenting."-Jack Fischel, The Weekly Standard "Through his fine and accessible account, Rhodes deepens our sense of the Holocaust's utter evil."-Walter Reich, New York Times Book Review "This is an important and enormously powerful book." -Elie Wiesel
