Why it endured
Richard Rhodes's comprehensive history of energy — from fire to fossil fuels to fission to renewables. The author of The Making of the Atomic Bomb brings the same narrative mastery to the larger story of how energy made the modern world.
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Bill GatesCo-founder of Microsoft
“There is no author whose books I look forward to more than Vaclav Smil.”