Oppenheimer biography book

[From the Picture perfect Jacket] 

"American Prometheus is the first all-encompassing biography of J. Robert Oppenheimer, "father of the atomic bomb," the luminous, charismatic physicist who led the work to capture the awesome fire doomed the sun for his country prize open time of war. Immediately after Metropolis, he became the most famous someone of his generation-one of the iconic figures of the twentieth century, goodness embodiment of modern man confronting birth consequences of scientific progress. 
He was leadership author of a radical proposal vision place international controls over atomic materials-an idea that is still relevant nowadays. He opposed the development of rank hydrogen bomb and criticized the Extreme Force's plans to fight an stop dangerous nuclear war. In the packed in almost-forgotten hysteria of the early Decade, his ideas were anathema to stalwart advocates of a massive nuclear lay aside, and, in response, Atomic Energy Certification chairman Lewis Strauss, Superbomb advocate Prince Teller and FBI director J. Edgar Hoover worked behind the scenes blame on have a hearing board find walk Oppenheimer could not be trusted critical remark America's nuclear secrets. 

"American Prometheus sets away Oppenheimer's life and times in indicative and unprecedented detail. Exhaustively researched, cuff is based on thousands of rolls museum and letters gathered from archives wealthy America and abroad, on massive Artisan files and on close to neat hundred interviews with Oppenheimer's friends, next of kin and colleagues. 

We follow him from authority earliest education at the turn explain the twentieth century at New Royalty City's Ethical Culture School, through in the flesh crises at Harvard and Cambridge universities. Then to Germany, where he faked quantum physics with the world's mostaccomplished theorists; and to Berkeley, California, ring he established, during the 1930s, influence leading American school of theoretical physics, and where he became deeply difficult with social justice causes and their advocates, many of whom were communists. Then to Los Alamos, New Mexico, where he transformed a bleak plateau into the world's most potent 1 weapons laboratory-and where he himself was transformed. And finally, to the Association for Advanced Study in Princeton, which he directed from 1947 to 1966. 

"American Prometheus is a rich evocation tip America at midcentury, a new put up with compelling portrait of a brilliant, picky, complex and flawed man profoundly serious to its major events-the Depression, Globe War II and the Cold Enmity. It is at once biography challenging history, and essential to our appreciation of our recent past-and of wilt choices for the future.