04656cam a2200385 4500 898395586 TxAuBib 20230725120000.0 ||||||s2006||||||||||||||||||||||||und|u 9781483077338 1483077330 868f8857-784b-4a59-a5f6-a375dc3472be OverDrive (Reserve ID) 155774 OverDrive (Product ID) 9781982447519 9781982447519 TxAuBib Bird, Kai. American Prometheus [Libby] : The Triumph and Tragedy of J. Robert Oppenheimer. Blackstone Publishing, 2006. Format: OverDrive OverDrive MP3 Audiobook, Filesize: 728MB. Format: OverDrive OverDrive Listen, Filesize: 728MB. Biography & Autobiography. History. Nonfiction. HTML:<p>The inspiration for the major motion picture Oppenheimer, this is the definitive biography of J. Robert Oppenheimer, a brilliant physicist who led the effort to build the atomic bomb for his country in a time of war and who later found himself confronting the moral consequences of scientific progress.</p> <p>American Prometheus is the first full-scale biography of J. Robert Oppenheimer, "father of the atomic bomb," the brilliant, charismatic physicist who led the effort to capture the awesome fire of the sun for his country in time of war.</p> <p>Immediately after Hiroshima, J. Robert Oppenheimer became the most famous scientist of his generation–one of the iconic figures of the twentieth century, the embodiment of modern man confronting the consequences of scientific progress.</p> <p>He was the author of a radical proposal to place international controls over atomic materials—an idea that is still relevant today. He opposed the development of the hydrogen bomb and criticized the Air Force's plans to fight an infinitely dangerous nuclear war</p> <p>In the now almost-forgotten hysteria of the early 1950s, his ideas were anathema to powerful advocates of a massive nuclear buildup, and, in response, Atomic Energy Commission chairman Lewis Strauss, superbomb advocate Edward Teller, and FBI director J. Edgar Hoover worked behind the scenes to have a hearing board find that Oppenheimer could not be trusted with America's nuclear secrets.</p> <p>American Prometheus sets forth Oppenheimer's life and times in revealing and unprecedented detail. Exhaustively researched, it is based on thousands of records and letters gathered from archives in America and abroad, on massive FBI files, and on close to a hundred interviews with Oppenheimer's friends, relatives, and colleagues.</p> <p>The book follows him from his earliest education at the turn of the twentieth century at New York City's Ethical Culture School through personal crises at Harvard and Cambridge universities. Then to Germany, where he studied quantum physics with the world's most accomplished theorists; and to Berkeley, California, where he established, during the 1930s, the leading American school of theoretical physics and where he became deeply involved with social justice causes and their advocates, many of whom were communists</p> <p>Then to Los Alamos, New Mexico, where he transformed a bleak mesa into the world's most potent nuclear weapons laboratory—and where he himself was transformed. And finally, to the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, which he directed from 1947 to 1966.</p> <p>American Prometheus is a rich evocation of America at midcentury, a compelling portrait of a brilliant, ambitious, complex, and flawed man profoundly connected to its major events: the Depression, World War II, and the Cold War. It is at once biography and history and is essential to our understanding of our recent past—and of our choices for the future.</p>. Media Type: Audiobook. Pulitzer Prize. National Book Critics Circle Award. Importer Version: 2014-01-08.01 Import Date: 2023-07-24 20:00:02. Sherwin, Martin J. Cummings, Jeff. https://excerpts.cdn.overdrive.com/FormatType-425/0887-1/155774-AmericanPrometheus.mp3 Excerpt (OverDrive MP3 Audiobook) https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=868F8857-784B-4A59-A5F6-A375DC3472BE&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (OverDrive MP3 Audiobook) https://excerpts.cdn.overdrive.com/FormatType-425/0887-1/155774-AmericanPrometheus.mp3 Excerpt (OverDrive Listen) https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=868F8857-784B-4A59-A5F6-A375DC3472BE&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (OverDrive Listen)