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Author:
Charles Seife
Publisher:
Basic Books
Date:
April 6, 2021
The story of a man whose brilliance in physics was matched by his genius for building his own myth.
What The Reviewers Say
It visits Hawking just as he is transitioning into a rare planetary superstardom.
a tough-minded portrait of the theoretical physicist.
Joyce Carol Oates once proposed the term 'pathography' for the subspecies of biography meant to deflate and demean its subject.
To say that we peek behind the curtain in this book is understatement. Seife, to his credit, explicates Hawking’s considerable scientific contributions at length. But he also gives new meaning to warts-and-all biography.
