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    "description": "<p>To his colleagues, Richard Feynman was not so much a genius as he was a full-blown magician: someone who &ldquo;does things that nobody else could do and that seem completely unexpected.&rdquo; The path he cleared for twentieth-century physics led from the making of the atomic bomb to a Nobel Prize-winning theory of quantam electrodynamics to his devastating expos&eacute; of the Challenger space shuttle disaster. At the same time, the ebullient Feynman established a reputation as an eccentric showman, a master safe cracker and bongo player, and a wizard of seduction. Now James Gleick, author of the bestselling Chaos, unravels the dense skein of Feynman&lsquo;s thought as well as the paradoxes of his character in a biography&mdash;which was nominated for a National Book Award&mdash;of outstanding lucidity and compassion.</p>",
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