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A Hole in the World by Richard Rhodes6/20/2023 Rhodes wrote about his childhood in A Hole in the World. Rhodes became a member of the board of trustees in 1991. The Drumm Institute is still in operation today, and now accepts both boys and girls. The admission of the brothers was something of an anomaly as the institution was designed for orphaned or indigent boys and they fit neither category. The brothers were removed from their father's custody and sent to the Andrew Drumm Institute, an institution for boys founded in 1928 in Independence, Missouri. One day Stanley walked into a police station and reported their living conditions. The new wife starved, exploited, and abused the children. When Rhodes was ten, their father remarried. Following his mother's suicide on July 25, 1938, Rhodes and his older brother Stanley were raised in the Kansas City, Missouri, area by his father, a railroad boilermaker with a third-grade education. Richard Rhodes was born in Kansas City, Kansas, in 1937. He also frequently gives lectures and talks on a broad range of subjects, including testimony to the U.S. Rhodes is an affiliate of the Center for International Security and Cooperation at Stanford University. Rhodes has been awarded grants from the Ford Foundation, the Guggenheim Foundation, the MacArthur Foundation, and the Alfred P. Richard Lee Rhodes (born July 4, 1937) is an American historian, journalist, and author of both fiction and non-fiction, including the Pulitzer Prize-winning The Making of the Atomic Bomb (1986), and most recently, Energy: A Human History (2018).
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