Richard Rhodes

paperback

528 pages


“Rhodes has managed to do for Audubon what Audubon did for birds . . . in this splendid biography Rhodes has produced nothing less than a portrait of the United States in its formative years.”

—The New York Times Book Review

Audubon's life makes an engaging story, and Pulitzer Prize winner Rhodes (The Making of the Atomic Bomb) chronicles every aspect of it, the commonplace as well as the audacious, in this thoroughly researched biography . . . Rhodes succeeds in shedding light on how Audubon perfected his ability to capture in his depictions of birds so much life and emotion that they transcend traditional wildlife painting.”

—Publishers Weekly