Hawking Hawking: The Selling of a Scientific Celebrity Free Audiobook Download by Charles Seife

The biography is about Stephen Hawking, an English theoretical physicist. The book chronicles his early academic success, both as a student and a professor, his part in the history of modern cosmology and how he came to be seen as a scientific celebrity. It also discusses how he became well known in popular culture, particularly through mentions of his work in various films.

This book tells the story of how Stephen Hawking became a scientific celebrity. He was not born with a distinctive and popular voice like others in his field. He had to work hard and develop it. This audiobook also tells the other side of the story, which is what happened when he became famous and how that impacted his career.

In his examination of the modern celebrity culture, Charles Seife discusses how Stephen Hawking is a good example of this. Seife begins by detailing the media hype that surrounded Hawking's work in the 1970s and 1980's. He also discusses his current status as a scientific celebrity with its own publicity machine to match.

In this book, Seife argues that Stephen Hawking is a product of the celebrity culture. The success of his books and popularization of his ideas have been driven primarily by the marketability of his celebrity.

[Tom Perkins] reads this audiobook in a captivating performance, which manages to recount the story of Hawking's rise to fame without losing focus on all the layers that make up this complicated tale. This is a fascinating book about science and politics, and how they can be sold to the public.

"Charles Seife is a long-time veteran of the investigative journalism, who has written the definitive biography of Stephen Hawking, among other books. 'The Selling of a Scientific Celebrity' is one of his most readable and compelling works.