12.28.2005
American Prometheus
by Kai Bird & Martin Sherwin, 591 pages, hardcover
Overall Grade: B+
A new biographer of Robert Oppenheimer, the head of the Los Alamos scientific establishment during the WWII race to build the atomic bomb. The prose was quite good, and it was very interesting to read a biography about a famous physicist that I knew little about before. However, it did seem to drag on for a long while, especially the section about his security clearance hearing. But a good read overall
Overall Grade: B+
A new biographer of Robert Oppenheimer, the head of the Los Alamos scientific establishment during the WWII race to build the atomic bomb. The prose was quite good, and it was very interesting to read a biography about a famous physicist that I knew little about before. However, it did seem to drag on for a long while, especially the section about his security clearance hearing. But a good read overall
Labels: genre: biographical, genre: historical, genre: non-fiction, genre: science, media: book
