Looking for America

by Richard Rhodes

A provocative and personal quest in the tradition of Emerson, Whitman, and Thoreau

Genres: Nonfiction

321 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1979

About the author

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.

Reviews

[Jake · Rating 3 out of 5]

Title is actually Looking for America.
Nice bunch of essays, although somewhat dated, they are from the 70's.
Bit of a time capsule.