Listening to AMERICAN PROMETHEUS: THE TRIUMPH AND TRAGEDY OF J. ROBERT OPPENHEIMER (2005) - written by Kai Bird and Martin J. Sherwin, and narrated by Jeff Cummings
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Prometheus
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Tove Alsterdal schafft es mit dem letzten Teil ihrer Krimi-Trilogie "Nebelblau" auf Platz 3 der Spiegel Bestsellerliste in der Rubrik Belletristik/Paperback. J. S. Wonda schafft es mit "Catch the Billion, Baby" ebenfalls auf Platz 3. Das Wöchentliche Bestseller-Update.
“#Oppenheimer was destroyed by a political movement characterized by rank know-nothing, anti-intellectual, xenophobic demagogues. The witch-hunters of that season are the direct ancestors of our current political actors of a certain paranoid style.” #KaiBird, author of #AmericanPrometheus
As I get close to finishing American Prometheus, a piece from one of its authors on Oppenheimer, ignorance & arrogance, and the ongoing legacy of those who kneecapped - nigh on decapitated - a scientist; "we've had enough of experts" is an example of Britain's (small c) conservatives following America's right wing lead to this day.
If you shoot the messenger, you'll find out too late what they had to say.
#Oppenheimer #KaiBird
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/07/17/opinion/kai-bird-oppenheimer-christopher-nolan.html?unlocked_article_code=Wg1jhlDLZcJ8N7c0GtRj4lmilfbSc9GYqof3uoBR1jlhOs5GPxBlQOtN_AmcdNgCIhPN6w-eU8_qYd3BsWNr23RDdtMwZ6M7SB300hkoPl-DObKZIUfFyaG-Yg7uRUMCiSzZe69WMOUp0uBxVvscChTspi58IYGhI4VID6vOGoWeeTqb0vDrIg19QWK1Il_cbo05sQRvkYI-SoK9wn93ZfPqmHXohgTcXIIE7UKouSyYJFTkIbkq6KYHr7WK1xuiEZnVI57MTL-sWktrAIC-vAvUOwlY2rcTJBb0kLWKoMkCycuHHW6s87icfpZNnMGJXLbQqI9v36ovb-QsxIE6qYe2HCOtiyhcSe8mbIcoU9E&smid=nytcore-android-share
#NowReading American Prometheus - by #KaiBird
American Prometheus: The Triumph and Tragedy of J. Robert Oppenheimer is a biography of J. Robert Oppenheimer by Kai Bird and Martin J. Sherwin published by Alfred A. Knopf in 2005. Twenty-five years in the making, the book was awarded the 2006 Pulitzer Prize for Biography or Autobiography. It also won the 2008 Duff Cooper Prize, Chicago Tribune Best Book of the Year, and Discover Magazine Best Science Book of the Year. The book was compiled and researched for two decades by Martin J. Sherwin before Kai Bird was brought on to put it together in a cohesive and readable format. The book's title refers to the legend of Prometheus, as mentioned in Scientific Monthly in September 1945: "Modern Prometheans have raided Mount Olympus again and have brought back for man the very thunderbolts of Zeus." It is 721 pages from start to finish in the May 2006 paperback edition, but it also includes 32 pages of photographs. The first edition also has 721 pages. The book is set to be adapted into the 2023 biographical film Oppenheimer.
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