American Prometheus: The Triumph and Tragedy of J. Robert Oppenheimer
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2005.
Hardcover. First Edition.
Biography of theoretical physicist J. Robert Oppenheimer, head of the Manhattan Project that produced the first nuclear weapons. The book was written over a period of 25 years and received the 2006 Pulitzer Prize for Biography. The book chronicles Oppenheimer's personal.....