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

By Kai Bird format: trade paperback publication: May 2006 ISBN: 9780375726262

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Winner of the 2006 Pulitzer Prize for Biography.

J. Robert Oppenheimer is 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.

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