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New York: Vintage. Trade Paperback. May 2006. First Paperback Edition / full number line. Very Good. Barely noticeable half-inch tear to top of front cover, otherwise As New. Interior pristine. Spine straight, tight, and uncreased. Cover clean and bright. Not from a library. Not remainder mark. Not clipped. xiv + 721 pages.
Winner of the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Critics Circle Award for Biography. 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 in the Cold War. This is biography and history at its finest, riveting and deeply informative.
Winner of the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Critics Circle Award for Biography. 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 in the Cold War. This is biography and history at its finest, riveting and deeply informative.
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- Date Published May 2006
- Keywords biography, history, atomic, atomic bomb, engineering, history, military, nuclear, physics, physicists, politics, Pulitzer Prize, science, technology
- Size 12mo
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