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Outstanding
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Publishers Weekly
The political drama is enhanced by the close attention to Oppenheimer's personal life. [7 Mar 2005, p.63]
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Outstanding
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Boston Globe Gregg Herken
''American Prometheus" stands as an Everest among the mountains of books on the bomb project and Oppenheimer, and is an achievement not likely to be surpassed or equaled.
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Outstanding
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Chicago Tribune Eric Arnesen
A masterpiece of scholarship and riveting writing. [22 May 2005]
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Outstanding
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Los Angeles Times Gerald Holton
A masterful account of Oppenheimer's rise and fall. [10 Apr 2005, p.R3]
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Outstanding
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San Francisco Chronicle Elizabeth Svoboda
A standout in two genres: biography and social history.
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Outstanding
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Booklist Bill Ott
[A] compelling life story. [1 Mar 2005, p.1100]
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Outstanding
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Kirkus Reviews
One of the best scientific biographies to appear in recent years. [15 Feb 2005, p.205]
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Outstanding
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The New Republic Daniel J. Kevles
Riveting and revealing.... A magisterial biography that is about as close to the whole story--and to a resolution of the contradictions--as we may hope to get.
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Favorable
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Bookslut John Detrixhe
A thoughtful and immaculately researched biography.
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Favorable
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Library Journal Gregg Sapp
For a readable and well-researched biography of the man, this suffices quite well. However, with so many other biographies available, not to mention histories of the Manhattan Project, it provides little new information here. [15 Apr 2005, p.115]
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Favorable
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The Globe And Mail [Toronto] Chris Scott
It deepens the mystery of this tormented figure. In awe of their subject, the authors... veer at times toward hagiography. Yet Oppenheimer emerges from their account with a distinctly tarnished halo. [21 May 2005]
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Favorable
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The New York Times Janet Maslin
A work of voluminous scholarship and lucid insight, unifying its multifaceted portrait with a keen grasp of Oppenheimer's essential nature.
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Favorable
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Washington Post James Gleick
American Prometheus is comprehensive, finely judged where it most matters and sometimes revelatory.
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Favorable
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Slate Peter Galison
Remarkable.
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Favorable
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Houston Chronicle Chris Patsilelis
An absorbing, densely detailed biography.
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Favorable
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The New Yorker
Delivers the most complex portrait of Oppenheimer to date.
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Favorable
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New York Review Of Books Thomas Powers
American Prometheus is clear in its purpose, deeply felt, persuasively argued, disciplined in form, and written with a sustained literary power.
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