American Prometheus by Martin J. Sherwin, Kai Bird

American Prometheus

Martin J. Sherwin, Kai Bird

missing duration info Add in missing duration information 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 58%
challenging 50%
sad 34%
dark 27%
emotional 25%
tense 25%
inspiring 24%
adventurous 7%
funny 2%
hopeful 2%
mysterious 2%

Pace

slow 56%
medium 38%
fast 4%

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4.28

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