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Richard Rhodes

Richard Rhodes was born in Kansas City, Kansas. After graduating with honors from Yale in 1959, he worked for Hallmark Cards and was a contributing editor for Harper’s and Playboy magazines. He is the author of more than fifty articles, and ten books, including Looking for America: A Writer’s Odyssey (1979); Making Love: An Erotic Odyssey (1993); Voyage of Rediscovery: A Cultural Odyssey Through Polynesia (1995); How to Write: Advice and Reflections (1996); the acclaimed The Making of the Atomic Bomb (1987), which won the Pulitzer Prize, the National Book Award, and the National Book Critics Circle Award; Deadly Feasts: Tracking the Secrets of a Terrifying New Plague (1997); and Masters of Death: The SS-Einsatzgruppen and the Invention of the Holocaust (2002). Rhodes’s ability to cut through to the essentials and follow an action from its onset to its completion is clearly seen in "Watching the Animals" (1970), an absorbing and realistic account of the processing of pigs into foodstuffs by the I-D Packing Company of Des Moines, Iowa.

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historian, journalist and writer from the USA

Born 4 Jul 1937

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New York Times reviewed, History, Biography, Arms race, Case studies, Long Now Manual for Civilization, Nuclear weapons, Atomic bomb, Authorship, Bovine spongiform encephalopathy, Brain, diseases, Cattle, diseases, Energy industries, Energy policy, Epidemiology, Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945), Kernwaffe, Nationalsozialistische Deutsche Arbeiter-Partei, Nationalsozialistische Deutsche Arbeiter-Partei. Schutzstaffel. Sicherheitsdienst, Nervous system, diseases, Nuclear disarmament, Nuclear nonproliferation, Orgasm, Prion diseases, Public health, research

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United States, Soviet Union, Germany, Poland, Kansas City (Mo.), Middle West, Missouri, Monts Ozark, Niemcy, Ozark Mountains Region, Polska, Sovjet-Unie, Spain, USA, Verenigde Staten, ZSRR, États-Unis

People

Richard Rhodes, Richard Rhodes (1937-), Hedy Lamarr (1913-2000), John James Audubon, John James Audubon (1785-1851), Lonnie H. Athens

Time

1933-1945, 1900-1945, 1939-1945 r., 1945-, 1945-1989, 1970-, Civil War, 1936-1939

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  • Rhodes, Richard, 1937-

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February 2, 2023 Edited by kd5tvi Edited without comment.
May 30, 2022 Edited by Tom Morris merge authors
September 30, 2020 Edited by MARC Bot add ISNI
March 31, 2017 Edited by MARC Bot add VIAF and wikidata ID
April 1, 2008 Created by an anonymous user initial import