What is the author's style in The Soul of a New Machine by Tracy Kidder?

The author, Tracey Kidder is a Pulitzer Prize winning author and the author of many books, among them Home Town and Mountains Beyond Mountains. As such, he is a good researcher and did the research that he needed to do in order to write The Soul of a New Machine, the book that earned him the Pulitzer and the National Book Award in 1982. The Harvard graduate also attended the University of Iowa and served in Viet Nam. Born in New York, he now resides in Massachusetts and Maine.