M.G. Lord

M.G. Lord is the author of Forever Barbie: The Unauthorized Biography of a Real Doll, and the recent memoir Astro Turf: The Private Life of Rocket Science.

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The Making of the Atomic Bomb by Richard Rhodes (Simon & Schuster, $20). This is, quite simply, the most important science story of the last century, told by its most important science writer.

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