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PULITZER PRIZE WINNER • The definitive biography of J. Robert Oppenheimer, one of the vital iconic figures of the 20th century, a brilliant physicist who led the hassle 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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In this magisterial, acclaimed biography twenty-five years within the making, Kai Bird and Martin Sherwin capture Oppenheimer’s life and times, from his early career to his central role within the Cold War. That is biography and history at its finest, riveting and deeply informative.
“A masterful account of Oppenheimer’s upward push and fall, set within the context of the turbulent decades of The united states’s own transformation. This is a tour de force.” —
Los Angeles Times Book Review“A work of voluminous scholarship and lucid insight, unifying its multifaceted portrait with a keen take hold of of Oppenheimer’s crucial nature…. It succeeds in deeply fathoming his most damaging, self-contradictory behavior.” —
The New York Times
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