
American Prometheus: The Triumph and Tragedy of J. Robert Oppenhemier
Thu, Aug 04
|CLE Lecture Hall
Time & Location
Aug 04, 2022, 10:00 AM – 12:00 PM
CLE Lecture Hall, 348 S 5th St, Highlands, NC 28741, USA
About the Event
Kai Bird's and Martin Sherwin's Pulitzer Prize-winning biography tells the fascinating story of "the father of the atomic bomb"- J. Robert Oppenheimer. The biography is rich evocation of America at mid-Century, a compelling portrait of a brilliant, ambitious, complex and flawed man profoundly connected to its major events - the Depression, World War II and the Cold War. Author Kai Bird will tell the story of this brilliant, charismatic physicist who led the Manhattan Project to build the bomb. he became, after Hiroshima, the most famous scientist of his generation and one of the iconic figures of the twentieth century, the embodiment of modern man confronting the consequences of scientific progress. Critics call the biography a "blockbuster," "masterful," an "essential" book", "the best study of Oppenheimer, not only a great biography but also a cautionary tale about the excesses of government in a time of fear." The book is the…