Admiral Hyman Rickover: Engineer of Power

by Marc Wortman

Book Overview

A riveting exploration of the brilliant, combative, and controversial "Father of the Nuclear Navy"

"Marc Wortman delivers a 17-gun salute to this short, profane spitfire who pulled a reluctant Navy into the atomic era. . . . Wortman opens a window into the life of an intellectual titan disdainful of nearly everything except scientific honesty, his adopted nation, and the power of the atom."--Jonathan W. Jordan, Wall Street Journal...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0300243103
• ISBN13: 9780300243109
• Release Date: February 2022
• Publisher: Yale University Press
• Length: 328 Pages
• Weight: 1.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.3" x 8.5"