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I've read Feynman's accounts of Arline's death ... Gleick nearly makes it a footnote in his life ... he spent more time discussing clinical trials of medicines that might have saved her life if only she'd been enrolled in them than he did in describing their relationship.
Gleick seems to be a lot more comfortable discussing science than people. Biographies should be about the people ... Heck, even Oppie, who by all accounts was as socially adept as he was brilliant comes across looking like a hopeless geek.
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