Richard Rhodes

b. 1937

1 standalone book

Richard Rhodes was an American historian, journalist, and writer. He was born in Kansas City, Kansas, and graduated with honors from Yale University in 1959. He worked for Hallmark Cards and served as a contributing editor for Harper’s and Playboy magazines. Rhodes authored more than fifty articles and ten books, covering a range of topics from cultural history to social issues. His work "Watching the Animals" (1970) offered a detailed account of the processing of pigs into foodstuffs. Among his notable books was The Making of the Atomic Bomb (1987), which received the Pulitzer Prize, the National Book Award, and the National Book Critics Circle Award. Other works include Looking for America: A Writer’s Odyssey (1979), Voyage of Rediscovery: A Cultural Odyssey Through Polynesia (1995), and Masters of Death: The SS-Einsatzgruppen and the Invention of the Holocaust (2002).

Born

1937