American Prometheus
Gustav’s Review:
I’ve always loved historical books, and as soon as ‘Oppenheimer’ was announced, I wanted to learn more about the Manhattan Project. Oppenheimer also seems like a complex individual whose life and work could translate into a true page turner. Moreover, with the energy superpowers flexing their muscles, the origins of atomic energy seems more relevant than ever.
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.
