RaveForeign AffairsOf the two biographers [Jennet Conant and David N. Schwartz], Schwartz has the more difficult task, since Fermi left no diaries or papers. The author is left to piece together Fermi’s story from whatever material he could find and is occasionally forced to speculate. But he does an admirable job of explaining the science and provides careful assessments of Fermi’s influence ... Both books illuminate the human effects of a project that was so urgent yet so terrible in its long-term implications.
