American Prometheus the triumph and tragedy of J. Robert Oppenheimer /
J. Robert Oppenheimer is one of the iconic figures of the twentieth century, a 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 biography twenty-five years in the mak...
| Main Author: | Bird, Kai, |
|---|---|
| Other Authors: | Sherwin, Martin J., |
| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
| Published: |
New York :
Vintage Books,
2006.
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| Physical Description: |
xiii, 721 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm. |
| Edition: | First Vintage books edition. |
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| 100 | 1 | |a Bird, Kai, |e author. | |
| 245 | 1 | 0 | |a American Prometheus : |b the triumph and tragedy of J. Robert Oppenheimer / |c Kai Bird and Martin J. Sherwin. |
| 250 | |a First Vintage books edition. | ||
| 264 | 1 | |a New York : |b Vintage Books, |c 2006. | |
| 264 | 4 | |c ©2005. | |
| 300 | |a xiii, 721 pages : |b illustrations ; |c 21 cm. | ||
| 336 | |a text |b txt |2 rdacontent. | ||
| 337 | |a unmediated |b n |2 rdamedia. | ||
| 338 | |a volume |b nc |2 rdacarrier. | ||
| 500 | |a Originally published: New York : Knopf, 2005. | ||
| 504 | |a Includes bibliographical references (pages 685-699) and index. | ||
| 505 | 0 | |a "He received every new idea as perfectly beautiful" -- "His separate prison" -- " I am having a pretty bad time" -- "I find the work hard, thank God, & almost pleasant" -- "I am Oppenheimer" -- "Oppie" -- "The Nim Nim boys" -- "In 1936 my interests began to change" -- "[Frank] clipped it out and sent it in" -- "More and more surely" -- "I'm going to marry a friend of yours, Steve" -- "We were pulling the New Deal to the left" -- "The coordinator of rapid rupture" -- "The Chevalier affair" -- "He'd become very patriotic" -- "Too much secrecy" -- "Oppenheimer is telling the truth ..." -- "Suicide, motive unknown" -- "Would you like to adopt her?" -- "Bohr was God, and Oppie was his prophet" -- "The impact of the gadget on civilization" -- "Now we're all sons-of-bitches" -- "Those poor little people" -- "I feel I have blood on my hands" - - "People could destroy New York" -- "Oppie had a rash and is now immune" -- "An intellectual hotel" -- "He couldn't understand why he did it" -- "I am sure that is why she threw things at him" -- "He never let on what his opinion was" -- "Dark words about Oppie" -- "Scientist X" -- "The beast in the jungle" -- "It looks pretty bad, doesn't it?" -- "I fear that this whole thing is a piece of idiocy" -- "A manifestation of hysteria" -- "A black mark on the escutcheon of our country" -- "I can still feel the warm blood on my hands" -- "It was really like a never-never land" -- "It should have been done the day after trinity" -- Epilogue: "There's only one Robert." | |
| 520 | |a J. Robert Oppenheimer is one of the iconic figures of the twentieth century, a 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 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 in the Cold War. --From publisher's description. | ||
| 586 | |a National Books Critics Circle Award for Nonfiction, 2007. | ||
| 586 | |a Pulitzer Prize for Biography, 2006. | ||
| 600 | 1 | 0 | |a Oppenheimer, J. Robert, |d 1904-1967. |
| 600 | 1 | 6 | |a Oppenheimer, J. Robert, |d 1904-1967. |
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| 650 | 7 | |a BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Historical. |2 bisacsh. | |
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