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American Prometheus: The Triumph and Tragedy of J. Robert Oppenheimer

American Prometheus: The Triumph and Tragedy of J. Robert Oppenheimer - Hardcover

by Kai Bird, Martin J. Sherwin
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Availability:In StockContributor:Kai Bird, Martin J. SherwinPublish date:2005-05-01Pages:736
Language:EnglishPublisher:Knopf Publishing GroupISBN-13:9780375412028ISBN-10:375412026UPC:9780375412028Book Category:Biography & Autobiography, ScienceBook Subcategory:Science & Technology, Physics, HistoricalBook Topic:NuclearAward:2005 National Book Critics Circle Award Winner - Biography Award|2006 Ambassador Book Awards Winner - Biography Award|2006 Lukas Prize Project Finalist - Nonfiction AwardSize:9.36 x 6.60 x 1.65 inchesWeight:2.4515Product ID:SCXT1H2DSE
THE INSPIRATION FOR THE ACADEMY AWARD(R)-WINNING MAJOR MOTION PICTURE OPPENHEIMER - "A riveting account of one of history's most essential and paradoxical figures."--Christopher Nolan

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - PULITZER PRIZE WINNER - The definitive biography of J. Robert Oppenheimer, one of the iconic figures of the twentieth century, a brilliant physicist who led the effort to build the atomic bomb for his country in a time of war, and who later found himself confronting the moral consequences of scientific progress.

In this magisterial, acclaimed biography twenty-five years in the making, Kai Bird and Martin Sherwin capture Oppenheimer's life and times, from his early career to his central role in the Cold War. This is biography and history at its finest, riveting and deeply informative.

"A masterful account of Oppenheimer's rise and fall, set in the context of the turbulent decades of America's own transformation. It is a tour de force." --Los Angeles Times Book Review

"A work of voluminous scholarship and lucid insight, unifying its multifaceted portrait with a keen grasp of Oppenheimer's essential nature.... It succeeds in deeply fathoming his most damaging, self-contradictory behavior." --The New York Times
Language:EnglishPublisher:Knopf Publishing GroupISBN-13:9780375412028ISBN-10:375412026UPC:9780375412028Book Category:Biography & Autobiography, ScienceBook Subcategory:Science & Technology, Physics, HistoricalBook Topic:NuclearAward:2005 National Book Critics Circle Award Winner - Biography Award|2006 Ambassador Book Awards Winner - Biography Award|2006 Lukas Prize Project Finalist - Nonfiction AwardSize:9.36 x 6.60 x 1.65 inchesWeight:2.4515Product ID:SCXT1H2DSE
Kai Bird is the author of The Chairman: John J. McCloy, The Making of the American Establishment and The Color of Truth: McGeorge Bundy and William Bundy, Brothers in Arms. He coedited with Lawrence Lifschultz Hiroshima's Shadow: Writings on the Denial of History and the Smithsonian Controversy. A contributing editor of The Nation, he lives in Washington, D.C., with his wife and son.

Martin J. Sherwin is the Walter S. Dickson Professor of English and American History at Tufts University and author of A World Destroyed: Hiroshima and Its Legacies, which won the Stuart L. Bernath Prize, as well as the American History Book Prize. He and his wife live in Boston and Washington, D.C.
Publisher: Knopf Publishing Group

Awards

🏆 2005 National Book Critics Circle Award Winner - Biography Award|2006 Ambassador Book Awards Winner - Biography Award|2006 Lukas Prize Project Finalist - Nonfiction Award

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Kai Bird, Martin J. Sherwin

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Kai Bird, Martin J. Sherwin

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