Book for Reading American Prometheus Book by Kai Bird, Martin J. Sherwin
The Inspiration for The Major Motion Picture Oppenheimer
one of history’s most essential and paradoxical figures.
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.
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.
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 him
most damaging, self-contradictory behavior.
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