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Featured Author: Richard Rhodes
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In This FeatureReviews of Richard Rhodes’s Earlier Books Articles About and by Richard Rhodes Related Links
Joyce Carol Oates Reviews ‘Why They Kill’ (September 19, 1999) First Chapter: ‘Why They Kill’
The Associated PressRichard Rhodes
‘Sons of Earth‘
(August 9, 1981)
“As a conventional cliffhanger and as a systematic contemplation of the uses and costs of fame in our idolatrous society, ‘Sons of Earth’ succeeds respectably; but what is most compelling
about the book is its ghoulish and timely portrait of the villain, a fame-starved misfit named Karl Loring Grabka . . . who calls to mind . . . Mark David Chapman . . .”‘The Making of the Atomic Bomb‘
(February 8, 1987)
“This book is a major work of historical synthesis that brings to life the men and machines that gave us the nuclear era. Rich in drama and suspense, ‘The Making of the Atomic Bomb’
also has remarkable breadth and depth, revealing new connections, insights and surprises.”‘Farm: A Year in the Life of an American Farmer‘
(September 24, 1989)
“Mr. Rhodes brings empathy and intelligence to his subject, and he projects for the reader that continuing identification with the day-to-day complexities, disappointments and gratifications
encountered by his pseudonymous family, the Bauers.”‘A Hole in the World: An American Boyhood,’ reviewed by Russell Banks
(October 28, 1990)
“. . . [a] wrenching childhood memoir . . . massive, brilliantly researched . . . A disturbing distortion tilts his memoir, however; its perspective left me uneasy. . . . The hole at the center
of the book is the unanswered question of why the father did not protect his sons.”‘Making Love: An Erotic Odyssey,’ reviewed by Martin Amis
(August 30, 1992)
“. . . a cataract of embarrassment. . . . He says he has written a book about sex because he wants to help and share, and so on, but a more convincing reason may be that he finds it very hard
to think about anything else.”‘Dark Sun: The Making of the Hydrogen Bomb‘
(July 30, 1995)
“. . . a brilliantly rich and vivid account of the interlocked early history of the cold war and the arms race that is as chilling as it is enthralling.”‘Deadly Feasts: Tracking the Secrets of a Terrifying New Plague‘
(March 16, 1997)
“[E]ven an oft-told tale is a treat when laid out by as good a storyteller as Richard Rhodes. . . . Sometimes I got the feeling that the book had been rushed a little too quickly into print . .
.”A Thin Disguise, by Richard Rhodes
(July 19, 1987)
In an essay for The New York Times Magazine, Rhodes describes how he tried to look inconspicuous among the farmers he was observing while researching the book “Farm.”Richard Rhodes and the Bomb
(November 14, 1987)
In an interview after “The Making of the Atomic Bomb” had won the National Book Award, Rhodes says, “The nation-states are slowly being forced to give up war. The bomb has permanently
altered the world.'”The Bomb Imposed Its Own Peace, by Richard Rhodes
(July 15, 1995)
In an Op-Ed piece for The New York Times, Rhodes argues that knowledge of the destructiveness of nuclear weapons, “like a vaccine, will continue to reduce the virulence of war.”Victims of Family Values, by Richard Rhodes
(December 1, 1995)
In an Op-Ed piece for The New York Times that makes reference to his own childhood, Rhodes makes the case against the “family-centered view of child welfare — a view that assumes that the child’s
best interests and her family’s best interests are identical.”Pop Culture’s Role in Nuclear Fears
(April 22, 1997)
Rhodes made an appearence on television’s “Frontline,” arguing that nuclear energy is safer, cleaner and more efficient than the coal, oil and natural gas.Richard Rhodes Reviews James H. Jones’s ‘Alfred C. Kinsey’
(November 2, 1997)
“Jones’s biography, which was researched across a quarter of a century, improves as it goes. His final assessment of his subject is positive. . . . I wish Jones had reconsidered his earlier
attacks on Kinsey’s scientific integrity in the light of this more mature and balanced view.”Previous Author Features From The New York Times on the Web
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