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Apr 5, 2005 · American Prometheus is a rich evocation of America at mid-century, a new and compelling portrait of a brilliant, ambitious, complex and flawed man profoundly connected to its major events—the Depression, World War II and the Cold War.
May 7, 2024 · American Prometheus: The Triumph and Tragedy of J. Robert Oppenheimer. by. Kai Bird (Goodreads Author), Martin J. Sherwin. Anne Green 's review. May 07, 2024. it was amazing. A stunning achievement, described by one reviewer as "magisterial".
- Anne Green
American Prometheus: The Triumph and Tragedy of J. Robert Oppenheimer is a 2005 biography of theoretical physicist J. Robert Oppenheimer, the leader of the Manhattan Project which produced the first nuclear weapons, written by Kai Bird and Martin J. Sherwin over a period of 25 years.
Apr 7, 2011 · In the hysteria of the early 1950s, his ideas were anathema to powerful advocates of a massive nuclear buildup, and people such as Edward Teller and FBI director J. Edgar Hoover worked behind the scenes to obtain a finding that he could not be trusted with America's nuclear secrets.
American Prometheus: The Triumph and Tragedy of J. Robert Oppenheimer. Kai Bird, Martin J. Sherwin. Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, Apr 11, 2006 - Biography & Autobiography -...
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.
