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Considerato uno dei più grandi scienziati di tutti i tempi e un autentico prodigio della fisica, Robert Oppenheimer coordinò il leggendario progetto Manhattan che nel 1945 produsse la prima bomba atomica, consacrando la sua carriera. Di fronte all'esito devastante dei bombardamenti su Hiroshima e Nagasaki, tuttavia, il «distruttore di mondi» avanzò una radicale proposta per il controllo internazionale dei ma...

American Prometheus is the first full-scale biography of J. Robert Oppenheimer, "father of the atomic bomb, " the brilliant, charismatic physicist who led the effort to capture the awesome fire of the sun for his country in time of war. Immediately after Hiroshima, he became the most famous scientist of his generation-one of the iconic figures of the twentieth century, the embodiment of modern man confronting the consequences of scientific pro...

American Prometheus. The Triumph and Tragedy of J. Robert Oppenheimer.Vpervye na russkom jazyke! Odna iz glavnyh publicisticheskih knig goda. Pervaja polnaja biografija sozdatelja atomnoj bomby, podrobno opisyvajushhaja ego put' ot rannego detstva do poslednih dnej zhizni. Obladatel' Pulitcerovskoj premii v nominacii «Luchshaja biografija». Kniga, kotoraja legla v osnovu scenarija novogo fil'ma Kristofera Nolana. Prem'era «Oppengejmera» sostoi...

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***SOON TO BE A MAJOR HOLLYWOOD FILM DIRECTED BY CHRISTOPHER NOLAN***WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE FOR NONFICTION'Reads like a thriller, gripping and terrifying' Sunday TimesPhysicist and polymath, as familiar with Hindu scriptures as he was with quantum mechanics, J. Robert Oppenheimer - director of the Manhattan Project that developed the atomic bomb - was the most famous scientist of his generation. In their meticulous and riveting biography...

Das Buch zum Kino-Highlight im Sommer 2023 Oppenheimer wird eines der großen Kino-Highlights im Sommer 2023 sein. Das biografische Thriller-Drama über den »Vater der Atombombe« J. Robert Oppenheimer wartet mit einem beeindruckenden Hollywood-Cast auf: Oscar-Preisträger Casey Affleck, Emily Blunt, Matt Damon, Cillian Murpy, Gary Oldman und viele andere sind dabei. Der Film, bei dem Christopher Nolan für Regie und Drehbuch verantwortlich ze...

Important . . . [a] landmark presidential biography . . . Bird is able to build a persuasive case that the Carter presidency deserves this new look."-The New York Times Book ReviewAn essential re-evaluation of the complex triumphs and tragedies of Jimmy Carter's presidential legacy-from the expert biographer and Pulitzer Prize-winning co-author of American PrometheusFour decades after Ronald Reagan's landslide win in 1980, Jimmy Carter's one-t...

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An essential re-evaluation of the complex triumphs and tragedies of Jimmy Carter's presidential legacy--from the expert biographer and Pulitzer Prize-winning author of American PrometheusEver since Ronald Reagan's landslide win in November 1980, pundits have labeled Jimmy Carter's single term in the White House a failed presidency. But Carter's time as president is a compelling and underexplored story, marked by accomplishment and adversity. I...

An essential re-evaluation of the complex triumphs and tragedies of Jimmy Carter's presidential legacy--from the expert biographer and Pulitzer Prize-winning author of American PrometheusEver since Ronald Reagan's landslide win in November 1980, pundits have labeled Jimmy Carter's single term in the White House a failed presidency. But Carter's time as president is a compelling and underexplored story, marked by accomplishment and adversity. I...

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A compelling portrait of the life and death of Robert Ames, America's most important spy in the Middle East, who was killed in a terrorist attack in 1983.

Against the backgrounds of World War II, the Cold War, the construction of Pax Americana, the Cuban missile crisis, the Kennedy assassination, and Vietnam, Bird shows us McCloy's astonishing rise from self-described "chore boy" to "chairman of the Establishment." His powerful circle shaped the postwar globe. But McCloy stood out among them as a towering figure of achievement: as a Wall Street lawyer who earned the confidence of captains of ind...

J. Robert Oppenheimer (1904-1967), der »Vater der Atombombe«, zählt zu den schillerndsten Figuren der jüngeren Zeitgeschichte. Für ihre glänzende Biographie des »amerikanischen Prometheus« erhielten der Journalist Kai Bird und der Historiker Martin J. Sherwin den Pulitzer-Preis. Exemplarisch lassen sie das Drama eines Forschers lebendig werden, der sich zwischen Erkenntnisdrang und ethischer Verantwortung entscheiden muss.Oppenheimer leitete d...

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.

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.

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A compelling portrait of the life and death of Robert Ames, America's most important spy in the Middle East. Pulitzer Prize winning biographer Bird conducted in-depth interviews with those who knew Ames best, including former CIA officers, Ames's widow, and members of clandestine Palestinian factions.