American Prometheus

Resumen del libro

Winner of the Pulitzer Prize, published in hardback to exceptional reviews in both the US and the UK, American Prometheus is as compelling a work of biography as it is a significant work of history. 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.

Biografía del autor

x{0026}lt;P x{0026}lt;B Kai Birdx{0026}lt;/B (Oregon, 1951) esun autor y columnista especializado en las bombas atómicas de Hiroshima y Nagasaki y las relaciones entre Estados Unidos y Oriente Próximo. Conocido por sus biografías sobre figuras políticas, ha recibido las becas Alicia Patterson de periodismo, Guggenheim y John D. x{0026}amp; Catherine T. MacArthur para la investigación y la escritura.x{0026}lt;/P