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""[A] profoundly fascinating, richly complex, and ineffably sad American life...Bird and Sherwin are without peer...in capturing the humanity of the man."" -- ""Booklist (starred review)"" ""[A] stunning blockbuster...[from] two accomplished Cold War historians."" -- ""Foreign Affairs"" ""A masterful account...A tour de force."" -- ""Los Angeles Times Book Review"" ""A masterpiece of scholarship and riveting writing."" -- ""Chicago Tribune"" ""A work of voluminous scholarship and lucid insight, unifying its multifaceted portrait with a keen grasp of Oppenheimer's essential nature."" -- ""New York Times"" ""Oppenheimer's triumphs and trials show how public policy, scientific genius, and private character become interwoven."" -- ""Walter Isaacson, #1 New York Times bestselling author"" ""Stands as an Everest among the mountains of books on the bomb project and Oppenheimer and is an achievement not likely to be surpassed or equaled."" -- ""Boston Globe"" ""Superb...A vivid portrait is painted of a charismatic, immensely human theoretical physicist."" -- ""Miami Herald"" ""The book's scope transcends the usual bounds of biography and illuminates a critical time in American history."" -- ""Bookmarks "" ""The definitive biography...Oppenheimer's life doesn't influence us. It haunts us."" -- ""Newsweek""

"""[A] profoundly fascinating, richly complex, and ineffably sad American life...Bird and Sherwin are without peer...in capturing the humanity of the man."" -- ""Booklist (starred review)"" ""[A] stunning blockbuster...[from] two accomplished Cold War historians."" -- ""Foreign Affairs"" ""A masterful account...A tour de force."" -- ""Los Angeles Times Book Review"" ""A masterpiece of scholarship and riveting writing."" -- ""Chicago Tribune"" ""A work of voluminous scholarship and lucid insight, unifying its multifaceted portrait with a keen grasp of Oppenheimer's essential nature."" -- ""New York Times"" ""Oppenheimer's triumphs and trials show how public policy, scientific genius, and private character become interwoven."" -- ""Walter Isaacson, #1 New York Times bestselling author"" ""Stands as an Everest among the mountains of books on the bomb project and Oppenheimer and is an achievement not likely to be surpassed or equaled."" -- ""Boston Globe"" ""Superb...A vivid portrait is painted of a charismatic, immensely human theoretical physicist."" -- ""Miami Herald"" ""The book's scope transcends the usual bounds of biography and illuminates a critical time in American history."" -- ""Bookmarks "" ""The definitive biography...Oppenheimer's life doesn't influence us. It haunts us."" -- ""Newsweek"""

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Kai Bird is the coauthor, with Martin J. Sherwin, of the Pulitzer Prize-winning biography American Prometheus: The Triumph and Tragedy of J. Robert Oppenheimer, which also won the National Book Critics Circle Award for Biography. His other books include The Chairman: John J. McCloy and the Making of the American Establishment and The Color of Truth: McGeorge Bundy and William Bundy, Brothers in Arms. Bird's many honors include fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation, the MacArthur Foundation, the German Marshall Fund, and the Rockefeller Foundation. A contributing editor for the Nation, he lives in Kathmandu, Nepal, with his wife and son. Martin J. Sherwin won the Pulitzer Prize for his book American Prometheus: The Triumph and Tragedy of J. Robert Oppenheimer and the Stuart L. Bernath Prize and the American History Book Prize for A World Destroyed: Hiroshima and Its Legacies. He is currently a University Professor at George Mason University and professor emeritus at Tufts, where he founded the Nuclear Age History Center. Jeff Cummings, as an audiobook narrator, has won both an Earphones Award and the prestigious Audie Award in 2015 for Best Narration in Science and Technology. He is also a twenty-year veteran of the stage, having worked at many regional theaters across the country, from A Contemporary Theatre in Seattle and the Alliance Theatre in Atlanta to the Utah Shakespeare Festival in Cedar City and the International Mystery Writers' Festival in Owensboro, Kentucky. He also spent seven seasons with the Oregon Shakespeare Festival.

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