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

721 pages 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 scie...

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informative 93%
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tense 23%
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funny 1%
hopeful 1%
mysterious 1%

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