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...American Prometheus?? has all the makings of a solid spy thriller. The protagonist is a brilliant but troubled physicist who flirts with the Communist Party and then does top-secret government work on the atomic bomb. Along the way, there are love affairs, a suicide, illegal wiretaps, vindictive former friends, and a kangaroo court. John le Carré could not have imagined a better story...
What is unbelievable is that everything detailed in “American Prometheus?? is absolutely true...
...from a cheap supermarket paperback, “American Prometheus?? is an exhaustive 600-page biography of the fascinating J. Robert Oppenheimer ’25, remembered by history as the “father of the atomic bomb.” Journalist Kai Bird and Tufts professor Martin J. Sherwin track the scientist from childhood to death, thoroughly charting his rise and fall through interviews, letters, and transcripts. After following Oppenheimer’s path for a quarter-century, the authors will return tonight to their subject’s alma mater, speaking...
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