
American Prometheus
The Triumph and Tragedy of J. Robert Oppenheimer
By: Kai Bird, Martin J. Sherwin
Paperback | 4 July 2023
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Now a Major Hollywood Film Directed by Christopher Nolan
Winner of The Pulitzer Prize for Nonfiction
'Reads like a thriller, gripping and terrifying' - Sunday Times
Physicist and polymath, as familiar with Hindu scriptures as he was with quantum mechanics, J. Robert Oppenheimer - director of the Manhattan Project that developed the atomic bomb - was the most famous scientist of his generation.
In their meticulous and riveting biography, Kai Bird and Martin J. Sherwin reveal a brilliant, ambitious, complex and flawed man, profoundly involved with some of the momentous events of the twentieth century.
About the Authors
Kai Bird is a contributing editor at The Nation and the author of several biographies, including The Chairman, The Color of Truth, The Good Spy and The Outlier. He is the recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship and a MacArthur Writing Fellowship
Martin J. Sherwin was a Professor of History at George Mason University. His other books include A World Destroyed, winner of the Stuart L. Bernath and the American History Book Prize, and Gambling with Armageddon.
Winner of The Pulitzer Prize for Nonfiction
'Reads like a thriller, gripping and terrifying' - Sunday Times
Physicist and polymath, as familiar with Hindu scriptures as he was with quantum mechanics, J. Robert Oppenheimer - director of the Manhattan Project that developed the atomic bomb - was the most famous scientist of his generation.
In their meticulous and riveting biography, Kai Bird and Martin J. Sherwin reveal a brilliant, ambitious, complex and flawed man, profoundly involved with some of the momentous events of the twentieth century.
About the Authors
Kai Bird is a contributing editor at The Nation and the author of several biographies, including The Chairman, The Color of Truth, The Good Spy and The Outlier. He is the recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship and a MacArthur Writing Fellowship
Martin J. Sherwin was a Professor of History at George Mason University. His other books include A World Destroyed, winner of the Stuart L. Bernath and the American History Book Prize, and Gambling with Armageddon.
Industry Reviews
'Reads like a thriller, gripping and terrifying by turns... No more absorbing biography will, I predict, come out this year, nor, given the dangers we face, a more important one.' - John Carey, Sunday Times
'Fascinating... Enthralling... All previous works on the topic are, in the nicest possible sense, blown out of the sky by a book which is, in both the proper and metaphorical meanings, monumental.' - Mark Lawson, Esquire
'No previous biography has... matched the power, range and lucidity of Martin Sherwin and Kai Bird's Life... Its combination of meticulous scholarship and felicitous prose grasps the drama of Oppenheimer's life in all its riveting complexity. ' - Sunday Telegraph
'A giant among biographies, a life story that at times reads like a thriller but which is also deeply authoritative and persuasively informative.... Magisterial.' - Observer
'This is a magisterial biography: a masterpiece that has taken decades to put together.' - Kathryn Hughes, Mail on Sunday
'Fascinating... Enthralling... All previous works on the topic are, in the nicest possible sense, blown out of the sky by a book which is, in both the proper and metaphorical meanings, monumental.' - Mark Lawson, Esquire
'No previous biography has... matched the power, range and lucidity of Martin Sherwin and Kai Bird's Life... Its combination of meticulous scholarship and felicitous prose grasps the drama of Oppenheimer's life in all its riveting complexity. ' - Sunday Telegraph
'A giant among biographies, a life story that at times reads like a thriller but which is also deeply authoritative and persuasively informative.... Magisterial.' - Observer
'This is a magisterial biography: a masterpiece that has taken decades to put together.' - Kathryn Hughes, Mail on Sunday
ISBN: 9781838959708
ISBN-10: 183895970X
Published: 4th July 2023
Format: Paperback
Language: English
Number of Pages: 736
Publisher: Atlantic
Country of Publication: GB
Dimensions (cm): 19.8 x 12.9 x 4.6
Weight (kg): 0.605
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