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Craig Nelson
CRAIG NELSON is the author of Rocket Men, The First Heroes, Thomas Paine (winner of the 2007 Henry Adams Prize), and Let's Get Lost (short-listed for W.H. Smith's Book of the Year).His writing has appeared in Vanity Fair, Salon, The New England Review, Reader's Digest, The New York Observer,... show more

CRAIG NELSON is the author of Rocket Men, The First Heroes, Thomas Paine (winner of the 2007 Henry Adams Prize), and Let's Get Lost (short-listed for W.H. Smith's Book of the Year).His writing has appeared in Vanity Fair, Salon, The New England Review, Reader's Digest, The New York Observer, Popular Science, and a host of other publications; he has been profiled in Variety, Interview, Publishers Weekly, and Time Out.Besides working at a zoo, in Hollywood, and being an Eagle Scout and a Fuller Brush Man, he was a vice president and executive editor of Harper & Row, Hyperion, and Random House, where he oversaw the publishing of twenty New York Times' bestsellers.He lives in Greenwich Village.photo: Helvio Faria
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Just Olga and her books
Just Olga and her books rated it 8 years ago
Thanks to Net Galley and to Scribner for offering me a free ARC copy of this book in exchange for an unbiased review. I am not a historian but like most people I’ve read novels and watched films about the events and was intrigued by the possibility of learning more about Pearl Harbor. This book defi...
Oliviate
Oliviate rated it 10 years ago
I've been reading a lot of atomic-age history books lately. A LOT. So I was prepared to go over material I'd seen before. And the 'rise and fall' narrative of radiation's discovery and military application is not uncommon, either. But the voice of this book! The moments the author lets himself syn...
Batgrl: Bookish Hooha
Batgrl: Bookish Hooha rated it 11 years ago
[Currently there's a really horrible quality jpg used for this book cover but I've been too busy to get around to taking a photo of my copy. Which is silly because it's bad quality is continuing to bother me every time I see it.] Once upon a time when you wanted to remember a really weird and/or t...
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