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"American Prometheus" is perhaps the most detailed biography yet of the scientist known as the father of the atomic bomb, J. Robert Oppenheimer. Based on 25 years of research, it focuses not just on the Manhattan Project, but also on the controversies surrounding his later pacifism and political attacks against him.
Knopf, 736 pages
04/05/2005
$35.00
ISBN: 0375412026
Nonfiction
Biographies & Memoirs
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Winner of the 2006 Pulitzer Prize for Biography.
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The average user rating for this book is 10.0 (out of 10) based on 2 User Votes
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Michael L gave it a10:
A fantastic book. I couldn't put it down
keith gave it a10:
Especially right now, in a political climate where most critical commentaries on our national policies are dismissed as un-patriotic, this book is a very timely object lesson. It points up the fact that in a democracy we should NEVER be afraid to questions our leaders' motives and policies. But the book is more than that. It is an account of how a brilliant man who made an enormous contribution to his country and had, in hindsight, the guts to question the wisdom his brainchild, the atomic bomb, can be destroyed by the country that he served with such honorable distinction. His main vice seems to have been that he disagreed with the sloppy and xenophobic 'thinking' of shallow and foolish people who were as satyrs to Hyperion. Frightening stuff. The book is admirably researched and beautifully written. It is a fine achievement in itself and a suitablle tribute to its criminally maligned subject. A formidable contribution.
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