Winner of the Pulitzer Prize, a biography of J Robert Oppenheimer which reads like a thriller as it traces the life of this complex and flawed man through the development of the atomic bomb and the history of that extraordinary period. Riveting stuff.
THE INSPIRATION FOR THE ACADEMY AWARD®-WINNING MAJOR MOTION PICTURE OPPENHEIMER "A riveting account of one of history's most essential and paradoxical figures."-Christopher Nolan
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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.A Kirkus Reviews Best Nonfiction Book of the CenturyIn 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.
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American Prometheus was written by Kai Bird, Martin J Sherwin and published by Vintage Books an imprint of Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
American Prometheus has 721 pages
