EPISODE · Mar 28, 2007 · 26H 31M
American Prometheus Audiobook by Kai Bird, Martin J. Sherwin
from Listen to Top 100 Audiobooks in Bios & Memoirs, Science & Technology Leaders · host Kai Bird
https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/audiobook/33/ to download full audiobooks of your choice for free. Title: American Prometheus Subtitle: The Triumph and Tragedy of J. Robert Oppenheimer Author: Kai Bird, Martin J. Sherwin Narrator: Jeff Cummings Format: Unabridged Length: 26 hrs and 31 mins Language: English Release date: 03-28-07 Publisher: Blackstone Audio, Inc. Ratings: 4.5 of 5 out of 1667 votes Genres: Bios & Memoirs, Science & Technology Leaders Publisher's Summary: Pulitzer Prize, Biography/Autobiography, 2006 National Book Critics Circle Award, Biography, 2006 J. Robert Oppenheimer is one of the iconic figures of the 20th 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. When he proposed international controls over atomic materials, opposed the development of the hydrogen bomb, and criticized plans for a nuclear war, his ideas were anathema to powerful advocates of a massive nuclear buildup during the anti-Communist hysteria of the early 1950s. They declared that Oppenheimer could not be trusted with America's nuclear secrets. In this magisterial biography, 25 years in the making, the authors capture Oppenheimer's life and times, from his early career to his central role in the Cold War. Critic Reviews: "The definitive biography...Oppenheimer's life doesn't influence us. It haunts us." (Newsweek) "[A] profoundly fascinating, richly complex, and ineffably sad American life.... Bird and Sherwin are without peer...in capturing the humanity of the man." (Booklist) "A work of voluminous scholarship and lucid insight, unifying its multifaceted portrait with a keen grasp of Oppenheimer's essential nature.... It succeeds in deeply fathoming his most damaging, self-contradictory behavior." (New York Times)
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Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/audiobook/33/ to download full audiobooks of your choice for free. Title: American Prometheus Subtitle: The Triumph and Tragedy of J. Robert Oppenheimer Author: Kai Bird, Martin J. Sherwin Narrator: Jeff Cummings Format: Unabridged Length: 26 hrs and 31 mins Language: English Release date: 03-28-07 Publisher: Blackstone Audio, Inc. Ratings: 4.5 of 5 out of 1667 votes Genres: Bios & Memoirs, Science & Technology Leaders Publisher's Summary: Pulitzer Prize, Biography/Autobiography, 2006 National Book Critics Circle Award, Biography, 2006 J. Robert Oppenheimer is one of the iconic figures of the 20th 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. When he proposed international controls over atomic materials, opposed the development of the hydrogen bomb, and criticized plans for a nuclear war, his ideas were anathema to powerful advocates of a massive nuclear buildup during the anti-Communist hysteria of the early 1950s. They declared that Oppenheimer could not be trusted with America's nuclear secrets. In this magisterial biography, 25 years in the making, the authors capture Oppenheimer's life and times, from his early career to his central role in the Cold War. Critic Reviews: "The definitive biography...Oppenheimer's life doesn't influence us. It haunts us." (Newsweek) "[A] profoundly fascinating, richly complex, and ineffably sad American life.... Bird and Sherwin are without peer...in capturing the humanity of the man." (Booklist) "A work of voluminous scholarship and lucid insight, unifying its multifaceted portrait with a keen grasp of Oppenheimer's essential nature.... It succeeds in deeply fathoming his most damaging, self-contradictory behavior." (New York Times)
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