Really an excellent biography. It gives one more view of the Manhattan Project and Fermi’s role in it. If you are a fan of Richard Feynman, this gives a bigger picture of the physics world prior to Feynman. And there are a few passages where the two interact. As the book notes, had he not died so early, Fermi might be better known today outside of physics.

Fermi was quite amazing. The section of the building of the atomic bomb and Fermi's contribution to that effort was interesting.

A fascinating account of the short but full life of one of the most brilliant minds of the modern age.
As the author states in the beginning, this is not a technical book, but it definitely sparked my curiosity about nuclear physics, nuclear reactions, and reactors. I ended up learning a lot from crossing the book with some YouTube videos on these topics.
It is awesome to think about this golden age of physics and how everything seemed to evolve so fast. However, it is even more interesting to learn about the human side of these greater-than-life personalities and understand how normal they were, while at the same time being unique.

Consumed this in a day. Cried. Encouraged me to learn more about physics and nuclear theory.

Brilliant.

At the beginning of the book the author claims not to have a deep physics background, but it’s kind of inevitable that one will need to get into the science weeds in discussing one of the most well known physicists of the 20th century. Sure enough, it gets into detail at times, and I think the lack of a hard science background is to its detriment. Ironically, it seems like compared to someone like Dirac that Fermi lived a more interesting life, yet I recall being more engaged in the Dirac biography (The Strangest Man). It’s clear that the author is very excited about the life of Fermi, but the enthusiasm never really grabs the reader as much as it could. I did enjoy knowing more about Fermi and the people in his orbit as he is such a huge figure.