American Prometheus: The Triumph and Tragedy of J. Robert Oppenheimer
(Adobe EPUB eBook, Kindle Book, OverDrive Read)
Published:
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group 2007
Status:
Checked Out
Description
THE INSPIRATION FOR THE ACADEMY AWARD®-WINNING MAJOR MOTION PICTURE OPPENHEIMER • "A riveting account of one of history’s most essential and paradoxical figures.”—Christopher Nolan
#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • PULITZER PRIZE WINNER • The definitive biography of J. Robert Oppenheimer, 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.
“A masterful account of Oppenheimer’s rise and fall, set in the context of the turbulent decades of America’s own transformation. It 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 grasp of Oppenheimer’s essential nature.... It succeeds in deeply fathoming his most damaging, self-contradictory behavior.” —The New York Times
#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • PULITZER PRIZE WINNER • The definitive biography of J. Robert Oppenheimer, 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.
“A masterful account of Oppenheimer’s rise and fall, set in the context of the turbulent decades of America’s own transformation. It 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 grasp of Oppenheimer’s essential nature.... It succeeds in deeply fathoming his most damaging, self-contradictory behavior.” —The New York Times
Formats
Adobe EPUB eBook
Works on all eReaders (except Kindles), desktop computers and mobile devices with reading apps installed.
Need Help?
If you are having problem transferring a title to your device, please fill out this support form or visit the library so we can help you to use our eBooks and eAudio Books.
If you are having problem transferring a title to your device, please fill out this support form or visit the library so we can help you to use our eBooks and eAudio Books.
More Copies In LINK+
Loading LINK+ Copies...
More Details
Format:
Adobe EPUB eBook, Kindle Book, OverDrive Read
Street Date:
12/18/2007
Language:
English
ISBN:
9780307424730
ASIN:
B000XUBEYS
Reviews from GoodReads
Loading GoodReads Reviews.
Citations
APA Citation (style guide)
Kai Bird. (2007). American Prometheus: The Triumph and Tragedy of J. Robert Oppenheimer. Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group.
Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation (style guide)Kai Bird. 2007. American Prometheus: The Triumph and Tragedy of J. Robert Oppenheimer. Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group.
Chicago / Turabian - Humanities Citation (style guide)Kai Bird, American Prometheus: The Triumph and Tragedy of J. Robert Oppenheimer. Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, 2007.
MLA Citation (style guide)Kai Bird. American Prometheus: The Triumph and Tragedy of J. Robert Oppenheimer. Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, 2007.
Note! Citation formats are based on standards as of July 2022. Citations contain only title, author, edition, publisher, and year published. Citations should be used as a guideline and should be double checked for accuracy.
Copy Details
Library | Owned | Available |
---|---|---|
Shared Digital Collection | 2 | 0 |
There are 10 holds on this title.
Staff View
Grouped Work ID:
4c310a49-beb3-2755-60b5-b473cd4b2edf
QR Code
API Extraction Dates
Needs Update?:
No
Date Added:
Jun 12, 2018 16:09:29
Date Updated:
Jul 12, 2024 22:05:43
Last Metadata Check:
Sep 07, 2024 10:25:30
Last Metadata Change:
Sep 01, 2024 06:37:01
Last Availability Check:
Sep 07, 2024 10:25:32
Last Availability Change:
Sep 07, 2024 08:21:37
Last Grouped Work Modification Time:
Sep 07, 2024 12:25:24
OverDrive Product Record
- images
- cover:
- href: https://img1.od-cdn.com/ImageType-100/0111-1/{25ADD7B5-8F1F-4A4C-B529-1C82959E2772}IMG100.JPG
- type: image/jpeg
- thumbnail:
- href: https://img1.od-cdn.com/ImageType-200/0111-1/{25ADD7B5-8F1F-4A4C-B529-1C82959E2772}IMG200.JPG
- type: image/jpeg
- cover150Wide:
- href: https://img1.od-cdn.com/ImageType-150/0111-1/{25ADD7B5-8F1F-4A4C-B529-1C82959E2772}IMG150.JPG
- type: image/jpeg
- cover300Wide:
- href: https://img1.od-cdn.com/ImageType-400/0111-1/{25ADD7B5-8F1F-4A4C-B529-1C82959E2772}IMG400.JPG
- type: image/jpeg
- cover:
- formats
- identifiers:
- type: ISBN
- value: 9780307424730
- type: PublisherCatalogNumber
- value: 13787
- name: Adobe EPUB eBook
- id: ebook-epub-adobe
- identifiers:
- identifiers:
- type: PublisherCatalogNumber
- value: 13787
- type: ASIN
- value: B000XUBEYS
- name: Kindle Book
- id: ebook-kindle
- identifiers:
- identifiers:
- type: ISBN
- value: 9780307424730
- type: PublisherCatalogNumber
- value: 13787
- name: OverDrive Read
- id: ebook-overdrive
- identifiers:
- otherFormatIdentifiers
- type: ISBN
- value: 9780375726262
- mediaType
- eBook
- primaryCreator
- role: Author
- name: Kai Bird
- isOwnedByCollections
- True
- title
- American Prometheus
- dateAdded
- 2016-03-21T20:59:00Z
- contentDetails
- href: https://link.overdrive.com?websiteID=141&titleID=449409
- type: text/html
- account:
- name: Sacramento Public Library (CA)
- id: 1151
- sortTitle
- American Prometheus The Triumph and Tragedy of J Robert Oppenheimer
- crossRefId
- 449409
- subtitle
- The Triumph and Tragedy of J. Robert Oppenheimer
- id
- 25ADD7B5-8F1F-4A4C-B529-1C82959E2772
- starRating
- 4.1
OverDrive MetaData
- isPublicDomain
- False
- formats
- fileName: AmericanPrometheus_9780307424730_449409
- partCount: 0
- fileSize: 8455385
- identifiers:
- type: ISBN
- value: 9780307424730
- type: PublisherCatalogNumber
- value: 13787
- rights:
- type: Copying
- value: 0
- type: Printing
- value: 0
- type: Lending
- value: 0
- type: ReadAloud
- value: 0
- type: ExpirationRights
- value: 0
- name: Adobe EPUB eBook
- isReadAlong: False
- id: ebook-epub-adobe
- onSaleDate: 12/18/2007
- samples:
- source: From the book
- formatType: ebook-epub-adobe
- url: https://excerpts.cdn.overdrive.com/FormatType-410/0111-1/25A/DD7/B5/AmericanPrometheusTheTriumphandTraged9780307424730.epub
- source: From the book
- formatType: ebook-overdrive
- url: https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=25ADD7B5-8F1F-4A4C-B529-1C82959E2772&.epub-sample.overdrive.com
- fileName: AmericanPrometheus_449409
- partCount: 0
- fileSize: 0
- identifiers:
- type: PublisherCatalogNumber
- value: 13787
- type: ASIN
- value: B000XUBEYS
- name: Kindle Book
- isReadAlong: False
- id: ebook-kindle
- onSaleDate: 12/18/2007
- samples:
- source: From the book
- formatType: ebook-epub-adobe
- url: https://excerpts.cdn.overdrive.com/FormatType-410/0111-1/25A/DD7/B5/AmericanPrometheusTheTriumphandTraged9780307424730.epub
- source: From the book
- formatType: ebook-overdrive
- url: https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=25ADD7B5-8F1F-4A4C-B529-1C82959E2772&.epub-sample.overdrive.com
- fileName: AmericanPrometheus_9780307424730_449409
- partCount: 0
- fileSize: 0
- identifiers:
- type: ISBN
- value: 9780307424730
- type: PublisherCatalogNumber
- value: 13787
- name: OverDrive Read
- isReadAlong: False
- id: ebook-overdrive
- onSaleDate: 12/18/2007
- samples:
- source: From the book
- formatType: ebook-epub-adobe
- url: https://excerpts.cdn.overdrive.com/FormatType-410/0111-1/25A/DD7/B5/AmericanPrometheusTheTriumphandTraged9780307424730.epub
- source: From the book
- formatType: ebook-overdrive
- url: https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=25ADD7B5-8F1F-4A4C-B529-1C82959E2772&.epub-sample.overdrive.com
- keywords
- value: Books
- value: non fiction book
- value: non fiction books
- value: nonfiction books
- value: Oppenheimer
- value: history books
- value: pulitzer prize winning books
- value: Best books
- value: historical books
- value: pulitzer prize winners
- value: History book
- value: history books for adults
- value: pulitzer prize winners nonfiction
- value: biography books
- value: history books best sellers
- value: american prometheus
- value: non fiction best sellers
- value: historical nonfiction best sellers
- value: best biographies of all time
- value: biography books best sellers
- value: oppenheimer book
- value: oppenheimer movie 2023
- value: openheimer
- value: oppenheimer book hardcover
- creators
- role: Author
- fileAs: Bird, Kai
- bioText: KAI BIRD is an award-winning historian and journalist. Executive director of the Leon Levy Center for Biography, he is the acclaimed author of biographies of John J. McCloy, of McGeorge and William Bundy, Robert Ames, and President Jimmy Carter. He won the Pulitzer Prize for Biography for American Prometheus: The Triumph and Tragedy of J. Robert Oppenheimer (co-authored with Martin J. Sherwin), which was adapted into the Academy Award-winning film Oppenheimer. His work has been honored with the BIO Award for his significant contributions to the art and craft of biography. He has also written about the Vietnam War, Hiroshima, nuclear weapons, the Cold War, the Arab-Israeli conflict, and the CIA. He lives in New York City and Washington, D.C., with his wife, Susan Goldmark.
MARTIN J. SHERWIN is the Walter S. Dickson Professor of English and American History at Tufts University and author of A World Destroyed: Hiroshima and Its Legacies, which won the Stuart L. Bernath Prize, as well as the American History Book Prize. He and his wife live in Boston and Washington, D.C. - name: Kai Bird
- role: Author
- fileAs: Sherwin, Martin J.
- name: Martin J. Sherwin
- imprint
- Vintage
- publishDate
- 2007-12-18T00:00:00-05:00
- isOwnedByCollections
- True
- title
- American Prometheus
- fullDescription
- THE INSPIRATION FOR THE ACADEMY AWARD®-WINNING MAJOR MOTION PICTURE OPPENHEIMER • "A riveting account of one of history’s most essential and paradoxical figures.”—Christopher Nolan
#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • PULITZER PRIZE WINNER • The definitive biography of J. Robert Oppenheimer, 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.
“A masterful account of Oppenheimer’s rise and fall, set in the context of the turbulent decades of America’s own transformation. It 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 grasp of Oppenheimer’s essential nature.... It succeeds in deeply fathoming his most damaging, self-contradictory behavior.” —The New York Times - popularity
- 15987
- links
- self:
- href: https://api.overdrive.com/v1/collections/v1L1B3gEAAA2d/products/25add7b5-8f1f-4a4c-b529-1c82959e2772/metadata
- type: application/vnd.overdrive.api+json
- shareInLibby:
- href: https://link.overdrive.com/share?q=gdsGAMShdiw
- type: text/HTML
- self:
- id
- 25add7b5-8f1f-4a4c-b529-1c82959e2772
- starRating
- 4.1
- images
- cover:
- href: https://img1.od-cdn.com/ImageType-100/0111-1/{25ADD7B5-8F1F-4A4C-B529-1C82959E2772}IMG100.JPG
- type: image/jpeg
- thumbnail:
- href: https://img1.od-cdn.com/ImageType-200/0111-1/{25ADD7B5-8F1F-4A4C-B529-1C82959E2772}IMG200.JPG
- type: image/jpeg
- cover150Wide:
- href: https://img1.od-cdn.com/ImageType-150/0111-1/{25ADD7B5-8F1F-4A4C-B529-1C82959E2772}IMG150.JPG
- type: image/jpeg
- cover300Wide:
- href: https://img1.od-cdn.com/ImageType-400/0111-1/{25ADD7B5-8F1F-4A4C-B529-1C82959E2772}IMG400.JPG
- type: image/jpeg
- cover:
- isPublicPerformanceAllowed
- False
- languages
- code: en
- name: English
- subjects
- value: Biography & Autobiography
- value: History
- value: Nonfiction
- publishDateText
- 12/18/2007
- otherFormatIdentifiers
- type: ISBN
- value: 9780375726262
- mediaType
- eBook
- shortDescription
- THE INSPIRATION FOR THE ACADEMY AWARD®-WINNING MAJOR MOTION PICTURE OPPENHEIMER • "A riveting account of one of history’s most essential and paradoxical figures.”—Christopher Nolan
#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • PULITZER PRIZE WINNER • The definitive biography of J. Robert Oppenheimer, 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.
“A masterful account of Oppenheimer’s rise and fall, set in the context of the turbulent decades of... - sortTitle
- American Prometheus The Triumph and Tragedy of J Robert Oppenheimer
- crossRefId
- 449409
- awards
- source: Columbia University
- value: Pulitzer Prize
- source: The National Book Critics Circle
- value: National Book Critics Circle Award
- subtitle
- The Triumph and Tragedy of J. Robert Oppenheimer
- publisher
- Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
- bisacCodes
- code: BIO006000
- description: Biography & Autobiography / Historical
- code: BIO015000
- description: Biography & Autobiography / Science & Technology
- code: HIS037070
- description: History / Modern / 20th Century