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American Prometheus: The Triumph and Tragedy of J. Robert Oppenheimer
by Martin J. Sherwin, Kai Bird
“They paid more to tap my phone than they paid me to run the Los Alamos Project.”
How should a man be judged, by his associations or by his actions? Can criticism of a government’s policies be equated with disloyalty to country? Can democracy survive in an atmosphere that demands the sacrifice of personal relationships to state policy? Is national security well served by applying narrow tests of political conformity to government employees?
Depressed, rejected, hailed, accused, and most of all misunderstood. "Leonardos and Oppenheimers are scarce,” Paul Horgan wrote in 1988, "but their wonderful love and projection of understanding as both private connoisseurs and historical achievers offer us at least an ideal to consider and measure by."
I wanted to read and study this period in American history and better understand the life of Oppenheimer before I walked in to experience Nolan’s film. I’m grateful I did as I feel that I will better keep pace with the individuals involved and continue to absorb the scale to which this time in history changed everything.
This was a most impressive biography — so engaging because of its depth in research and commentary. It stands next to Isaacson’s Leonardo Da Vinci in my top tier biographies that I have ever read.
How should a man be judged, by his associations or by his actions? Can criticism of a government’s policies be equated with disloyalty to country? Can democracy survive in an atmosphere that demands the sacrifice of personal relationships to state policy? Is national security well served by applying narrow tests of political conformity to government employees?
Depressed, rejected, hailed, accused, and most of all misunderstood. "Leonardos and Oppenheimers are scarce,” Paul Horgan wrote in 1988, "but their wonderful love and projection of understanding as both private connoisseurs and historical achievers offer us at least an ideal to consider and measure by."
I wanted to read and study this period in American history and better understand the life of Oppenheimer before I walked in to experience Nolan’s film. I’m grateful I did as I feel that I will better keep pace with the individuals involved and continue to absorb the scale to which this time in history changed everything.
This was a most impressive biography — so engaging because of its depth in research and commentary. It stands next to Isaacson’s Leonardo Da Vinci in my top tier biographies that I have ever read.