American Prometheus: The Triumph and Tragedy of J. Robert Oppenheimer by Martin J. Sherwin, Kai Bird

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

Martin J. Sherwin, Kai Bird

26 hours, 30 minutes first pub 2005 (editions)

nonfiction biography history science challenging informative reflective slow-paced

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J. Robert Oppenheimer is 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 scien...

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informative 94%
reflective 47%
sad 36%
challenging 31%
inspiring 31%
dark 21%
emotional 21%
tense 15%
adventurous 10%

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medium 38%
fast 5%

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