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Winner of the Pulitzer Prize, published in hardback to exceptional reviews in both the US and the UK, American Prometheus is as compelling a work of biography as it is a significant work of history. 'Quite simply, a giant among biographies.' Robin McKie, Observer

In this magisterial biography twenty-five years in the making and winner of the 2006 Pulitzer Prize for biography, the authors capture Oppenheimer's life and times, from his early career to his central role in the Cold War.

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 scientific progress. In this magisterial, acclaimed biography twenty-five years in the making, Kai Bird and Martin Sherwin capture Oppenheimer's life and times, from his early career to his central role i...

Robert Oppenheimer è stato uno dei maggiori scienziati di tutti i tempi, un autentico genio della fisica. È stato anche uno straordinario manager e organizzatore: è merito suo se il Progetto Manhattan riuscì in tempi brevissimi a produrre la prima bomba atomica, frutto di un gigantesco sforzo collettivo che Oppenheimer riuscì a coordinare con successo. Tuttavia quel trionfo segnò anche l'inizio di una tragedia personale che ci può aiutare a ca...

PULITZER PRIZE WINNER KAI BIRD'S fascinating memoir of his early years spent in Israel, Jordan, Egypt, Saudi Arabia, and Lebanon provides an original and illuminating perspective into the Arab-Israeli conflict. Weeks before the Suez War of 1956, four-year-old Kai Bird, son of a garrulous, charming American Foreign Service officer, moved to Jerusalem with his family. They settled in a small house, where young Kai could hear church bells and the...