Pulitzer-winning author Richard Rhodes writes engagingly and with admirable clarity a history of energy that is a woefully incomplete.

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Read more »Pulitzer-winning author Richard Rhodes writes engagingly and with admirable clarity a history of energy that is a woefully incomplete.