A review by inqeption
American Prometheus: The Triumph and Tragedy of J. Robert Oppenheimer by Martin J. Sherwin, Kai Bird

challenging informative fast-paced

5.0

i have read an impressively large amount of poorly written history in the past 5 years, but what was immediately striking was how remarkably engaging of a biography this was. i made fun of christopher nolan for treating the recruitment of scientists to the manhattan project like the recruitment of the avengers in a marvel movie, but the way that the book itself frames these events borderline demands cinematic adaptation. my center of research, while i adore it, admittedly does not have as large or as impressive of a historiography as the father of the atomic bomb. ultimately, the craziest thing is not that j robert oppenheimer was a weird man (something we all know), but rather the fact that there is so much historical documentation of how weird of a man he was.

anyway rip to j robert oppenheimer you were one of the most well documented and weirdest men that i've ever read about