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100 1 $aBird, Kai.
245 10 $aAmerican Prometheus :$bthe triumph and tragedy of J. Robert Oppenheimer /$cby Kai Bird and Martin J. Sherwin.
250 $a1st ed.
260 $aNew York, NY :$bAlfred A. Knopf,$c2005.
300 $axiii, 721 p., [32] pages of plates :$bill. ;$c25 cm.
500 $aWinner of the Pulitzer Prize for Biography for 2006.
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
505 0 $a I: "He received every new idea as perfectly beautiful" -- "His separate prison" -- "I am having a pretty bad time" -- "I find the work hard, thank God, & almost pleasant" -- "I am Oppenheimer" -- "Oppie" -- "The nim nim boys" -- II: "In 1936 my interests began to change" -- "[Frank] clipped it out and sent it in" -- "More and more surely" -- "I'm going to marry a friend of yours, Steve" -- "We were pulling the new deal to the left" -- "The coordinator of rapid rupture" -- "The Chevalier affair" -- III: "He'd become very patriotic" -- "Too much secrecy" -- "Oppenheimer is telling the truth ..." -- "Suicide, motive unknown" -- "Would you like to adopt her? '' -- "Bohr was God, and Oppie was his prophet" -- "The impact of the gadget on civilization" -- "Now we're all sons-of-bitches" -- IV: "Those poor little people" -- "I feel I have blood on my hands" -- "People could destroy New York" -- "Oppie had a rash and is not immune" -- "An intellectual hotel" -- "He couldn't understand why he did it" -- "I am sure that is why she threw things at him" -- "He never let on what his opinion was" -- "Dark words about Oppie" -- "Scientist X" -- "The beast in the jungle" -- V: "It looks pretty bad, doesn't it?" -- "I fear that this whole thing is a piece of idiocy" -- "A manifestation of hysteria" -- "A black mark on the Escutcheon of our country" -- "I can still feel the warm blood on my hands" -- "It was really like a never-never-land" -- "It should have been done the day after trinity" -- Epilogue: "There's only one J. Robert Oppenheimer"
586 $aLibrary Journal Best Sci-Tech Books, 2005
586 $aPulitzer Prize for Biography, 2006.
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