Title:: [[The MANIAC]] Authors:: [[Benjamin Labatut]] Tags:: #fiction #historicalfiction Read:: [[2023-12-31]] Instagram :: https://www.instagram.com/jeronimo_ficus/p/C1h6_dnvSp4/ ## Editions - Edition:: [[Penguin Books]], First, 2023 - Original Copyright:: 2023 - Pages:: 354 ## Purchase * Bookshop.org:: https://bookshop.org/a/94437/9780593654477 ## Annotations Eminently readable and did not disappoint. Labatut uses the life of John von Neumann (who I had never heard of until this) to demonstrate the fine line between knowledge and destruction upon which genius dances. This scared the shit out of me.