American Prometheus Av Kai Bird, Martin J. Sherwin

<p><b>***THE INSPIRATION FOR </b><i>OPPENHEIMER</i>, <b>WINNER OF 7 OSCARS, INCLUDING BEST PICTURE, BEST DIRECTOR AND BEST ACTOR</b><b>***</b><br><br><b>THE <i>SUNDAY TIMES </i>BESTSELLER</b><br><br><b>WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE FOR NONFICTION</b><br><br><b>''Reads like a thriller, gripping and terrifying'' <i>Sunday Times</i><br></b><br>Physicist and polymath, as familiar with Hindu scriptures as he was with quantum mechanics, J. Robert Oppenheimer - director of the Manhattan Project that developed the atomic bomb - was the most famous scientist of his generation. In their meticulous and riveting biography, Kai Bird and Martin J. Sherwin reveal a brilliant, ambitious, complex and flawed man, profoundly involved with some of the momentous events of the twentieth century.</p>