With his wife Ginger Rhodes, a clinical psychologist in private practice in San Francisco, he lives near Half Moon Bay, California. Richard Rhodess memoir, A Hole in the World: An American Boyhood, etched an eloquent and unforgettable portrait of the emotional and physical abuse that. A fourth and final volume, The Twilight of the Bombs, is currently in bookstores. Pulitzer-winner Rhodes, apparently galvanized by the overwhelming emotional response to his account of his abused childhood in A Hole in the World (1990). Richard Rhodes 17 Paperback 11 offers from 7. He is an affiliate of the Center for International Security and Cooperation at Stanford University.Ī third volume of nuclear history, Arsenals of Folly: The Making of the Nuclear Arms Race, was published in October 2007 by Alfred A. He has been a visiting scholar at Harvard and MIT and a host and correspondent for documentaries on public television's Frontline and American Experience series.

He has received numerous fellowships for research and writing, including grants from the Ford Foundation, the Guggenheim Foundation, the MacArthur Foundation Program in International Peace and Security and the Alfred P. Richard Rhodes ‘The world is full of terrible suffering, compared to which the small inconveniences of my childhood are as a drop of rain in the sea.’ The world is full of terrible suffering, compared to which the small inconveniences of my childhood are as a drop of rain in the sea. Richard Rhodes is the author or editor of twenty-three books including The Making of the Atomic Bomb, which won a Pulitzer Prize in Nonfiction, a National Book Award and a National Book Critics Circle Award Dark Sun: The Making of the Hydrogen Bomb, which was shortlisted for a Pulitzer Prize in History an investigation of the roots of private violence, Why They Kill a personal memoir, A Hole in the World a biography, John James Audubon and four novels.

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