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More than a mere biography: it is a comprehensive history of a man and his era...Rhodes breathes life again into the world in which Audubon lived. -- Los Angeles Times Book Review Panoramic yet intensely detailed...[Rhodes] has conveyed the thrust of his subject's imagination and the force of his movement as if painting Audubon from life. -- San Francisco Chronicle Rhodes has given us the most three-dimensional portrait yet of Audubon the man. -- The Washington Post Book World 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

"""[Rhodes] has conveyed the thrust of his subject's imagination and the force of his movement as if painting Audubon from life."" -- ""San Francisco Chronicle"" ""A comprehensive history of a man and his era...Rhodes breathes life again into the world in which Audubon lived."" -- ""Los Angeles Times Book Review"" ""His life makes an engaging story, and Pulitzer Prize winner Rhodes chronicles every aspect of it, the commonplace as well as the audacious."" -- ""Publishers Weekly (starred review)"" ""Rhodes has given us the most three-dimensional portrait yet of Audubon the man."" -- ""Washington Post Book World"" ""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."" -- ""New York Times Book Review"" ""Audubon's story is at once intimate and mythic, and Rhodes' fresh, comprehensive biography will capture the imagination of readers everywhere."" -- ""Booklist (starred review)"" ""An absorbing story...and Rhodes tells it surpassingly well. Outstanding."" -- ""Kirkus Reviews (starred review)"""

"""Audubon's story is at once intimate and mythic, and Rhodes' fresh, comprehensive biography will capture the imagination of readers everywhere."" -- ""Booklist (starred review)"" ""An absorbing story...and Rhodes tells it surpassingly well. Outstanding."" -- ""Kirkus Reviews (starred review)"" ""More than a mere biography: it is a comprehensive history of a man and his era...Rhodes breathes life again into the world in which Audubon lived."" -- ""Los Angeles Times Book Review"" ""Panoramic yet intensely detailed...[Rhodes] has conveyed the thrust of his subject's imagination and the force of his movement as if painting Audubon from life."" -- ""San Francisco Chronicle"" ""Rhodes has given us the most three-dimensional portrait yet of Audubon the man."" -- ""The Washington Post Book World"" ""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"""

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"Richard Rhodes is the author of twenty-six books including The Making of the Atomic Bomb, which won the Pulitzer Prize in Nonfiction, the National Book Award, and the National Book Critics Circle Award. He graduated from Yale University and has received fellowships from the Ford Foundation, the National Endowment for the Arts, the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, and the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation. He has been a visiting scholar at Harvard, MIT, and Stanford and a host and correspondent for documentaries on American public television. Grover Gardner is an award-winning narrator with over a thousand titles to his credit. Named one of the ""Best Voices of the Century"" and a Golden Voice by AudioFile magazine, he has won three prestigious Audie Awards."

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