Richard Lee Rhodes is an American journalist, historian, and author of both fiction and non-fiction (which he prefers to call "verity"), including the Pulitzer Prize-winning The Making of the Atomic Bomb (1986), and most recently, Arsenals of Folly: The Making of the Nuclear Arms Race (2007). He has been awarded grants from the Ford Foundation, the Guggenheim Foundation, the MacArthur Foundation and the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation among others. He is an affiliate of the Center for International Security and Cooperation at Stanford University. He also frequently gives lectures and talks on a broad range of subjects to various audiences, including testifying before the U.S. Senate on nuclear energy.
Books
How to Write
Advice and Reflections
1995
Why They Kill
The Discoveries of a Maverick Criminologist
1999
The Inland Ground
1970
Arsenals of Folly
The Making of the Nuclear Arms Race
2007
Scientist
E. O. Wilson: A Life in Nature
1999
The Ungodly
1973
Deadly Feasts
The "Prion" Controversy and the Public's Health
1997
Hedy's Folly
The Life and Breakthrough Inventions of Hedy Lamarr, the Most Beautiful Woman in the World
2011
John James Audubon
The Making of an American
2004
The Ozarks
1000
Touchstone Anthology of Contemporary Creative Nonfiction
Work from 1970 to the Present
2007
Masters of Death
The SS-Einsatzgruppen and the Invention of the Holocaust
2002
The Twilight of the Bombs
Recent Challenges, New Dangers, and the Prospects for a World Without Nuclear Weapons
2010
Hell and Good Company
The Spanish Civil War and the World it Made
2015
Visions Of Technology
A Century Of Vital Debate About Machines Systems A
1999
Energy
A Human History
2018
A Hole in the World
An American Boyhood
1990
Making Love
An Erotic Odyssey
1992
Farm
A Year in the Life of an American Farmer
1989
Dark Sun
The Making of the Hydrogen Bomb
1995
The Making of the Atomic Bomb
1986
