American Prometheus The Triumph and Tragedy of J. Robert Oppenheimer
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Biografisk notat
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 prizes, and Gambling with Armageddon.
<b>A riveting account of one of history's most essential and paradoxical figures.</b>
- Christopher Nolan,
<b>To Kai Bird and Martin Sherwin, thank you for the 25 years you put into the book [<i>American Prometheus</i>] this film is based on.</b>
Christopher Nolan, Oscars Acceptance Speech 2024
<b>Reads like a thriller, gripping and terrifying by turns</b>... 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
<b>I hate to say it, but, if you zip through all six hundred pages of the book before seeing the film, you'll enjoy the ride more.</b>
- Anthony Lane, New Yorker
<b>Fascinating... Enthralling... </b><b>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.</b>
- Mark Lawson, Esquire
No previous biography has... matched the power, range and lucidity of Martin Sherwin and Kai Bird's Life...<b> I</b><b>ts combination of meticulous scholarship and felicitous prose grasps the drama of Oppenheimer's life in all its riveting complexity. </b>
Sunday Telegraph
<b>A giant among biographies, a life story that at times reads like a thriller but which is also deeply authoritative and persuasively informative.</b><b>... </b><b>Magisterial.</b>
Observer
This is a magisterial biography: <b>a masterpiece</b> that has taken decades to put together.
- Kathryn Hughes, Mail on Sunday
A <b>tremendous</b> work of scholarship.
Financial Times
<b>Dazzling</b>... Rich in incident and enigma... It wears its scholarship lightly and <b>whisks the reader through the story at thriller-like pace.</b>
New Statesman
<b>Magisterial</b>... There have been many books on Oppenheimer... but <i>American Prometheus</i> is the first to attempt to explore more than a single facet... <b>It is a portrait of the man, the times, the science, and the politics... It is a vaulting ambition, and it is amply rewarded.</b>
- Judith Flanders, Spectator
<b>The definitive biography</b>... Oppenheimer's life doesn't influence us. It haunts us.
Newsweek
<b>A work of voluminous scholarship and lucid insight</b>, unifying its multifaceted portrait with a keen grasp of Oppenheimer's essential nature... It succeeds in deeply fathoming his most damaging, self-contradictory behavior.
New York Times
A <b>masterful </b>account of Oppenheimer's rise and fall, set in the context of the turbulent decades of America's own transformation. It is <b>a tour de force</b>.
Los Angeles Times Book Review
There have been numerous books about Oppenheimer but they can't touch this <b>extraordinary </b>book's impressive breadth and scope.
Miami Herald
The first biography to give full due to Oppenheimer's <b>extraordinary </b>complexity... Stands as an Everest among the mountains of books on the bomb project and Oppenheimer, and is<b> an achievement not likely to be surpassed or equaled</b>.
Boston Globe
***THE INSPIRATION FOR OPPENHEIMER, WINNER OF 7 OSCARS, INCLUDING BEST PICTURE, BEST DIRECTOR AND BEST ACTOR***
THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER
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.
Produktdetaljer
Biografisk notat
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 prizes, and Gambling with Armageddon.