J. Robert Oppenheimer is one of the iconic figures of the twentieth century a brilliant
physicist who led the effort to build the atomic bomb for his country in a time of war and who
later found himself confronting the moral consequences of scientific progress. In this
magisterial acclaimed biography twenty-five years in the making Kai Bird and Martin Sherwin
capture Oppenheimer's life and times from his early career to his central role in the Cold
War. This is biography and history at its finest riveting and deeply informative.
