American Prometheus: The Inspiration for the Major Motion Picture OPPENHEIMER

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 thrust and fall, set within the context of the turbulent decades of The usa’s own transformation. This can be a tour de force.” —

“A work of voluminous scholarship and lucid insight, unifying its multifaceted portrait with a keen seize of Oppenheimer’s crucial nature…. It succeeds in deeply fathoming his most damaging, self-contradictory behavior.” —The New York Times