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

Description: American Prometheus by Kai Bird, Martin J. Sherwin SOON TO BE A MAJOR HOLLYWOOD FILM DIRECTED BY CHRISTOPHER NOLAN. Winner of the Pulitzer Prize, published to exceptional reviews in both the US and the UK, American Prometheus is as compelling a work of biography as it is a significant work of history. FORMAT Paperback CONDITION Brand New Publisher Description 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.Reads like a thriller, gripping and terrifying - Sunday Times Author Biography Kai Bird is a contributing editor at The Nation and the author of several biographies, includingThe Chairman, The Color of Truth, The Good Spy and The Outlier. He is the recipient of a GuggenheimFellowship and a MacArthur Writing FellowshipMartin J. Sherwin was a Professor of History at George Mason University. His other books include AWorld Destroyed, winner of the Stuart L. Bernath and the American History Bookprizes, and Gambling with Armageddon. Table of Contents 1: "He Received Every New Idea as Perfectly Beautiful" 2: "His Separate Prison" 3: "I Am Having a Pretty Bad Time" 4: "I Find Work Hard, Thank God, & Almost Pleasant" 5: "I Am Oppenheimer" 6: "Oppie" 7: "The Nim Nim Boys" 8: "In 1936 My Interests Began to Change" 9: "[Frank] Clipped It Out and Sent it In" 10: "More and More Surely" 11: "Im Going to Marry a Friend of Yours, Steve" 12: "We Were Pulling the New Deal to the Left" 13: "The Coordinator of Rapid Rupture" 14: "The Chevalier Affair" 15: "Hed Become Very Patriotic" 16: "Too Much Secrecy" 17: "Oppenheimer Is Telling the Truth" 18: "Suicide, Motive Unknown" 19: "Would You Like to Adopt Her?" 20: Bohr Was God, and Oppie Was His Prophet" 21: "The Impact of the Gadget on Civilization" 22: "Now Were All Sons-of-Bitches" 23: "Those Poor Little People" 24: "I Feel I Have Blood on My Hands" 25: "People Could Destroy New York" 26: "Oppie Had a Rash and Is Now Immune" 27: "An Intellectual Hotel" 28: "He Couldnt Understand Why He Did It" 29: "I Am Sure That Is Why She Threw Things at Him" 30: "He Never Let On What His Opinion Was" 31: "Dark Words About Oppie" 32: "Scientist X" 33: "The Beast in the Jungle" 34: "It Looks Pretty Bad, Doesnt It?" 35: "I Fear That This Whole Thing Is a Piece of Idiocy" 36: "A Manifestation of Hysteria" 37: "A Black Mark on the Escutcheon of Our Country" 38: "I Can Still Feel the Warm Blood on My Hands" 39: "It Was Really Like a Never-Never-Land" 40: "It Should Have Been Done the Day After Trinity" Epilogue: "Theres Only One Robert" Review Reads like a thriller, gripping and terrifying by turns... No more absorbing biography will, Ipredict, come out this year, nor, given the dangers we face, a more important one. - John Carey,Sunday TimesFascinating... Enthralling... All previous works on the topic are, in the nicest possiblesense, blown out of the sky by a book which is, in both the proper and metaphorical meanings,monumental. - Mark Lawson, EsquireNo previous biography has... matched the power, range and lucidity of Martin Sherwin and KaiBirds Life... Its combination of meticulous scholarship and felicitous prose grasps the drama ofOppenheimers life in all its riveting complexity. - Sunday TelegraphA giant among biographies, a life story that at times reads like a thriller but which is alsodeeply authoritative and persuasively informative.... Magisterial. -ObserverThis is a magisterial biography: a masterpiece that has taken decades to puttogether.- Kathryn Hughes, Mail on Sunday Details ISBN183895970X Author Martin J. Sherwin Pages 736 Publisher Atlantic Books Year 2023 ISBN-13 9781838959708 Format Paperback Publication Date 2023-06-01 Imprint Atlantic Books Subtitle The Triumph and Tragedy of J. Robert Oppenheimer Place of Publication London Country of Publication United Kingdom AU Release Date 2023-06-01 NZ Release Date 2023-06-01 UK Release Date 2023-06-01 ISBN-10 183895970X Illustrations 2 x 16pp b/w plates Edition Description Tie-In DEWEY 530.092 Audience General We've got this At The Nile, if you're looking for it, we've got it. With fast shipping, low prices, friendly service and well over a million items - you're bound to find what you want, at a price you'll love! TheNile_Item_ID:142691230;

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