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American Prometheus : the triumph and tragedy of J. Robert Oppenheimer  Cover Image Book Book

American Prometheus : the triumph and tragedy of J. Robert Oppenheimer / Kai Bird and Martin J. Sherwin.

Bird, Kai, (author.). Sherwin, Martin J., (author.).

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  • ISBN: 9780375726262 (trade paperback)
  • Physical Description: xiii, 721 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm
  • Edition: First Vintage Books edition.
  • Publisher: New York : Vintage Books, a division of Random House, Inc., 2006.

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Bibliography, etc. Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Subject: Oppenheimer, J. Robert, 1904-1967.
Atomic bomb > United States > History.
Physicists > United States > Biography.
Science > Political aspects > United States > History > 20th century.
United States > History > 20th century.
Genre: Biographies.

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  • 1 of 1 copy available at Tsuga Consortium.

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KAI BIRD is an award-winning historian and journalist. Executive director of the Leon Levy Center for Biography, he is the acclaimed author of biographies of John J. McCloy, of McGeorge and William Bundy, Robert Ames, and President Jimmy Carter. He won the Pulitzer Prize for Biography for American Prometheus: The Triumph and Tragedy of J. Robert Oppenheimer (co-authored with Martin J. Sherwin), which was adapted into the Academy Award-winning film Oppenheimer. His work has been honored with the BIO Award for his significant contributions to the art and craft of biography. He has also written about the Vietnam War, Hiroshima, nuclear weapons, the Cold War, the Arab-Israeli conflict, and the CIA. He lives in New York City and Washington, D.C., with his wife, Susan Goldmark.

MARTIN J. SHERWIN is the Walter S. Dickson Professor of English and American History at Tufts University and author of A World Destroyed: Hiroshima and Its Legacies, which won the Stuart L. Bernath Prize, as well as the American History Book Prize. He and his wife live in Boston and Washington, D.C.


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