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

Bird, Kai; Sherwin, Martin J.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 183895970X ISBN 13: 9781838959708

Publisher: Atlantic Books, 2023

Synopsis

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.

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About the Authors

A contributing editor at the Nation, Kai Bird is the author of several biographies, including the Pulitzer Prize winner American Prometheus: The Triumph and Tragedy of J. Robert Oppenheimer (Atlantic 2008) with Martin J. Sherwin. He lives in Washington, D.C. and Nepal with his wife and son.

Martin J. Sherwin is Professor of History at Tufts University abd University Professor at George Mason University. He is the author of A World Destroyed: Hiroshima and its Legacies and, with Kai Bird, of the Pulitzer Prize winner American Prometheus: The Triumph and Tragedy of J. Robert Oppenheimer (Atlantic 2008). He and his wife live in Washington, D.C.

From the Back Cover

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.

Edition details

• Publisher: Atlantic Books
• Publication date: 2023
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 183895970X
• ISBN 13: 9781838959708
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 736