Michael Joseloff’s book, The Greatest Scientific Gamble, was published in March with Michigan State University Press. Michael writes: “I am a retired TV news and documentary producer. I worked at the MacNeil/Lehrer NewsHour for 13 years, 20th Century with Mike Wallace (CBS News Productions) for five, and several other programs after that. My documentaries have won four Emmys and several other awards. In writing this book, I wanted to transport readers to the 1930s and 40s to shed new light on a pivotal era in global history. I anticipated writing a story about impossible odds and brilliant engineering—and while I found plenty of examples, I was surprised by what came with them—the surplus of good luck, the near disasters, the chance encounters, the unexpected plot twists, and the botched experiments by Nobel laureates. Combined with the assassination attempts and a kidnapping plot, the true history often felt more like a fictional thriller than a historical narrative.”
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