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American Prometheus
- The Triumph and Tragedy of J. Robert Oppenheimer
- ナレーター: Jeff Cummings
- 再生時間: 26 時間 30 分
- カテゴリー: 自伝, 歴史
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The Making of the Atomic Bomb
- 25th Anniversary Edition
- 著者: Richard Rhodes
- ナレーター: Holter Graham
- 再生時間: 37 時間 16 分
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Here for the first time, in rich human, political, and scientific detail, is the complete story of how the bomb was developed, from the turn-of-the-century discovery of the vast energy locked inside the atom to the dropping of the first bombs on Japan. Few great discoveries have evolved so swiftly - or have been so misunderstood. From the theoretical discussions of nuclear energy to the bright glare of Trinity, there was a span of hardly more than 25 years.
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The General and the Genius
- Groves and Oppenheimer - The Unlikely Partnership That Built the Atom Bomb
- 著者: James Kunetka
- ナレーター: Malcolm Hillgartner
- 再生時間: 14 時間 5 分
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Two ambitious men. One historic mission. With a blinding flash in the New Mexico desert in the summer of 1945, the world was changed forever. The bomb that ushered in the atomic age was the product of one of history's most improbable partnerships. The General and the Genius reveals how two extraordinary men pulled off the greatest scientific feat of the 20th century.
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Gambling with Armageddon
- Nuclear Roulette from Hiroshima to the Cuban Missile Crisis
- 著者: Martin J. Sherwin
- ナレーター: Mark Bramhall
- 再生時間: 18 時間 50 分
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From the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of American Prometheus: The Triumph and Tragedy of J. Robert Oppenheimer comes the first effort to set the Cuban Missile Crisis, with its potential for nuclear holocaust, in a wider historical narrative of the Cold War - how such a crisis arose and why at the very last possible moment it didn't happen.
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109 East Palace
- Robert Oppenheimer and the Secret City of Los Alamos
- 著者: Jennet Conant
- ナレーター: Anne Twomey
- 再生時間: 5 時間 57 分
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They were told as little as possible. Their orders were to go to Santa Fe, New Mexico, and report for work at a classified Manhattan Project site, a location so covert it was known to them only by the mysterious address: 109 East Palace.
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The Pope of Physics
- Enrico Fermi and the Birth of the Atomic Age
- 著者: Gino Segre, Bettina Hoerlin
- ナレーター: Tim Campbell
- 再生時間: 10 時間 39 分
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Enrico Fermi is unquestionably among the greats of the world's physicists, the most famous Italian scientist since Galileo. Called "the Pope" by his peers, he was regarded as infallible in his instincts and research. His discoveries changed our world; they led to weapons of mass destruction and conversely to life-saving medical interventions. This unassuming man struggled with issues relevant today, such as the threat of nuclear annihilation and the relationship of science to politics.
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Lenin's Tomb
- The Last Days of the Soviet Empire
- 著者: David Remnick
- ナレーター: Michael Prichard
- 再生時間: 29 時間 6 分
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In the tradition of John Reed's classic Ten Days That Shook the World, this best-selling account of the collapse of the Soviet Union combines the global vision of the best historical scholarship with the immediacy of eyewitness journalism.
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The Making of the Atomic Bomb
- 25th Anniversary Edition
- 著者: Richard Rhodes
- ナレーター: Holter Graham
- 再生時間: 37 時間 16 分
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Here for the first time, in rich human, political, and scientific detail, is the complete story of how the bomb was developed, from the turn-of-the-century discovery of the vast energy locked inside the atom to the dropping of the first bombs on Japan. Few great discoveries have evolved so swiftly - or have been so misunderstood. From the theoretical discussions of nuclear energy to the bright glare of Trinity, there was a span of hardly more than 25 years.
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The General and the Genius
- Groves and Oppenheimer - The Unlikely Partnership That Built the Atom Bomb
- 著者: James Kunetka
- ナレーター: Malcolm Hillgartner
- 再生時間: 14 時間 5 分
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Two ambitious men. One historic mission. With a blinding flash in the New Mexico desert in the summer of 1945, the world was changed forever. The bomb that ushered in the atomic age was the product of one of history's most improbable partnerships. The General and the Genius reveals how two extraordinary men pulled off the greatest scientific feat of the 20th century.
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Gambling with Armageddon
- Nuclear Roulette from Hiroshima to the Cuban Missile Crisis
- 著者: Martin J. Sherwin
- ナレーター: Mark Bramhall
- 再生時間: 18 時間 50 分
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From the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of American Prometheus: The Triumph and Tragedy of J. Robert Oppenheimer comes the first effort to set the Cuban Missile Crisis, with its potential for nuclear holocaust, in a wider historical narrative of the Cold War - how such a crisis arose and why at the very last possible moment it didn't happen.
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109 East Palace
- Robert Oppenheimer and the Secret City of Los Alamos
- 著者: Jennet Conant
- ナレーター: Anne Twomey
- 再生時間: 5 時間 57 分
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They were told as little as possible. Their orders were to go to Santa Fe, New Mexico, and report for work at a classified Manhattan Project site, a location so covert it was known to them only by the mysterious address: 109 East Palace.
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The Pope of Physics
- Enrico Fermi and the Birth of the Atomic Age
- 著者: Gino Segre, Bettina Hoerlin
- ナレーター: Tim Campbell
- 再生時間: 10 時間 39 分
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Enrico Fermi is unquestionably among the greats of the world's physicists, the most famous Italian scientist since Galileo. Called "the Pope" by his peers, he was regarded as infallible in his instincts and research. His discoveries changed our world; they led to weapons of mass destruction and conversely to life-saving medical interventions. This unassuming man struggled with issues relevant today, such as the threat of nuclear annihilation and the relationship of science to politics.
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Lenin's Tomb
- The Last Days of the Soviet Empire
- 著者: David Remnick
- ナレーター: Michael Prichard
- 再生時間: 29 時間 6 分
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In the tradition of John Reed's classic Ten Days That Shook the World, this best-selling account of the collapse of the Soviet Union combines the global vision of the best historical scholarship with the immediacy of eyewitness journalism.
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Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman!
- 著者: Richard P. Feynman
- ナレーター: Raymond Todd
- 再生時間: 11 時間 31 分
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With his characteristic eyebrow-raising behavior, Richard P. Feynman once provoked the wife of a Princeton dean to remark, "Surely you're joking, Mr. Feynman!" But the many scientific and personal achievements of this Nobel Prize-winning physicist are no laughing matter. Here, woven with his scintillating views on modern science, Feynman relates the defining moments of his accomplished life.
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Einstein
- His Life and Universe
- 著者: Walter Isaacson
- ナレーター: Edward Herrmann
- 再生時間: 21 時間 30 分
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Why we think it’s a great listen: You thought he was a stodgy scientist with funny hair, but Isaacson and Hermann reveal an eloquent, intense, and selfless human being who not only shaped science with his theories, but politics and world events in the 20th century as well. Based on the newly released personal letters of Albert Einstein, Walter Isaacson explores how an imaginative, impertinent patent clerk became the mind reader of the creator of the cosmos.
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Genius
- The Life and Science of Richard Feynman
- 著者: James Gleick
- ナレーター: Dick Estell
- 再生時間: 20 時間 5 分
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From the author of the national best seller Chaos comes an outstanding biography of one of the most dazzling and flamboyant scientists of the 20th century that "not only paints a highly attractive portrait of Feynman but also . . . makes for a stimulating adventure in the annals of science." ( The New York Times).
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What Do You Care What Other People Think?
- Further Adventures of a Curious Character
- 著者: Richard P. Feynman, Ralph Leighton
- ナレーター: Raymond Todd
- 再生時間: 6 時間 12 分
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One of the greatest physicists of the twentieth century, Richard Feynman possessed an unquenchable thirst for adventure and an unparalleled ability to tell the stories of his life. "What Do You Care What Other People Think?" is Feynman's last literary legacy, prepared with his friend and fellow drummer, Ralph Leighton.
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The Swerve
- How the World Became Modern
- 著者: Stephen Greenblatt
- ナレーター: Edoardo Ballerini
- 再生時間: 9 時間 41 分
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Nearly six hundred years ago, a short, genial, cannily alert man in his late 30s took a very old manuscript off a library shelf, saw with excitement what he had discovered, and ordered that it be copied. That book was the last surviving manuscript of an ancient Roman philosophical epic by Lucretius—a beautiful poem containing the most dangerous ideas: that the universe functioned without the aid of gods, that religious fear was damaging to human life, and that matter was made up of very small particles.
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Isaac Newton
- 著者: James Gleick
- ナレーター: Allan Corduner
- 再生時間: 5 時間 45 分
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James Gleick has long been fascinated by the making of science: how ideas order visible appearances, how equations can give meaning to molecular and stellar phenomena, how theories can transform what we see. In Chaos, he chronicled the emergence of a new way of looking at dynamic systems; in Genius, he portrayed the wondrous dimensions of Richard Feymnan's mind.
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Truman
- 著者: David McCullough
- ナレーター: Nelson Runger
- 再生時間: 54 時間 11 分
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Hailed by critics as an American masterpiece, David McCullough's sweeping biography of Harry S. Truman captured the heart of the nation. The life and times of the 33rd president of the United States, Truman provides a deeply moving look at an extraordinary, singular American.
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The Dead Hand
- The Untold Story of the Cold War Arms Race and its Dangerous Legacy
- 著者: David E. Hoffman
- ナレーター: Bob Walter
- 再生時間: 20 時間 46 分
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During the Cold War, world superpowers amassed nuclear arsenals containing the explosive power of one million Hiroshimas. The Soviet Union secretly plotted to create the "Dead Hand," a system designed to launch an automatic retaliatory nuclear strike on the United States, and developed a fearsome biological warfare machine. President Ronald Reagan, hoping to awe the Soviets into submission, pushed hard for the creation of space-based missile defenses.
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American Lion
- Andrew Jackson in the White House
- 著者: Jon Meacham
- ナレーター: Richard McGonagle
- 再生時間: 17 時間 16 分
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Beloved and hated, venerated and reviled, Andrew Jackson was an orphan who fought his way to the pinnacle of power, bending the nation to his will in the cause of democracy. Jackson's election in 1828 ushered in a new and lasting era in which the people, not distant elites, were the guiding force in American politics. Democracy made its stand in the Jackson years, and he gave voice to the hopes and the fears of a restless, changing nation facing challenging times at home and threats abroad.
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The Apocalypse Factory
- Plutonium and the Making of the Atomic Age
- 著者: Steve Olson
- ナレーター: Jonathan Yen
- 再生時間: 11 時間 9 分
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It began with plutonium, the first element ever manufactured in quantity by humans. Fearing that the Germans would be the first to weaponize the atom, the United States marshaled brilliant minds and seemingly inexhaustible bodies to find a way to create a nuclear chain reaction of inconceivable explosive power. In a matter of months, the Hanford nuclear facility was built to produce and weaponize the enigmatic and deadly new material that would fuel atomic bombs.
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The Warmth of Other Suns
- The Epic Story of America's Great Migration
- 著者: Isabel Wilkerson
- ナレーター: Robin Miles
- 再生時間: 22 時間 40 分
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From 1915 to 1970, this exodus of almost six million people changed the face of America. Wilkerson compares this epic migration to the migrations of other peoples in history. She interviewed more than a thousand people, and gained access to new data and official records, to write this definitive and vividly dramatic account of how these American journeys unfolded, altering our cities, our country, and ourselves.
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Sacred Hunger
- 著者: Barry Unsworth
- ナレーター: David Rintoul
- 再生時間: 22 時間 16 分
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1752, the Liverpool Merchant sets sail from Merseyside. A slaver, she is bound for Africa to buy men and transport them in chains across the Atlantic. But aboard ship disease thrives in the cramped hold, killing men and eating into profit. Captain Thurso insists on throwing the sick overboard, to the horror of Matthew Paris, ship's surgeon, who determines to prevent such barbarity. Meanwhile, back home, Erasmus Kemp, cousin of Paris and son of the Liverpool Merchant's owner, finds his fortune hanging in the balance: dependent on the success or failure of a single voyage....
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Pulitzer Prize, Biography/Autobiography, 2006
National Book Critics Circle Award, Biography, 2006
J. Robert Oppenheimer is one of the iconic figures of the 20th 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.
When he proposed international controls over atomic materials, opposed the development of the hydrogen bomb, and criticized plans for a nuclear war, his ideas were anathema to powerful advocates of a massive nuclear buildup during the anti-Communist hysteria of the early 1950s. They declared that Oppenheimer could not be trusted with America's nuclear secrets.
In this magisterial biography, 25 years in the making, the authors capture Oppenheimer's life and times, from his early career to his central role in the Cold War.
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- Roy
- 2009/07/10
A "Blast" from the Past
Kai Bird and Martin Sherwin have written an outstanding biography in "American Prometheus." It relates the story of J. Robert Oppenheimer from childhood through the Manhattan Project. The book delves into the complexity of this man's personality and motivations. It thoroughly covers his political activism and his professional career. Biography lovers will not be disappointed. The writing is fast paced, the reading is very good, and Oppenheimer comes alive. Perhaps the most valuable contribution the book makes is placing Oppenheimer in political and historic context. The reader learns alot about the era as his life unfolds.
NOTE: My downloaded copy of the book seemed to be edited. The book is still worth the effort, but short portions were apparently re-recorded and inserted into the audio in places. The warmth of the reader(who was excellent by the way) changes abruptly and then jerks back. The pace changes for very brief periods where insertions are made. The volume abruptly changes and then returns. It was a distraction to my ears at least. Don't miss this book if you have an interest, however, for this reason alone.
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- Leslie
- 2009/12/28
interesting, but recording is not good
The book itself is quite interesting and well worth it. Unfortunately, the audio editing is not good. The cuts are noticeable as the narrator's volume and tone changes, something I have not observed on any other book I've listened to. There was also at least one occasion where a line was repeated because of poor editing. Finally, the narrator mangles foreign words, especially French one, which is quite distracting.
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- CFS
- 2007/09/03
One of the best books I have read
Although a true marathon listen, this was a fascinating trip throug the history of the atomic bomb centered on J. Robert Oppenheimer's life with many intricate and brilliant connections to the political agenda of the times. I learned more from this book than I did in high shool and although it took may weeks to finish, I would read this book again and will also recommend it to others for a very enjoyable, extremely well written, complex book. A true pleasure.
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- Chris
- 2008/05/17
Wow
Bad editing is my only complaint about this one. Great book, but you can really tell when they re-recorded something or took a break in the recording. Very poorly done and really interupts what is otherwise an outstanding book. I would highly recomend this if you have any interest in Oppie, Physics or civil liberties.
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- Dr. Mark
- 2007/08/16
well worth the time
This book above all is a full and detailed review of a brilliant man's life, including his successes, failures, weaknesses and strengths. Its volume is necessary because of the immense complexity of Oppenheimer's work and relationships. It reveals that great intellect can lead to heroic deeds (manhattan project) and unfortunate missteps (his marital and familial relationships). Most impressively, the authors take great effort to provide insight into the unfortunate McCarthy era and its effect on individuals and the nation as a whole.
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- Edith
- 2007/12/13
An American Tragedy
This is a haunting story of a brilliant man, and what the ugly demagogues of the 50's did to him. It captures the man, his charisma, phenomenal mind, surprising shortcomings, and as well his era with it's endless martinis, cigarettes, political naivite and grey-flannel evil. Truly a compelling "read."
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- Thomas
- 2007/11/25
Oppenheimer
The book is a fine description of an extremely unusual man, and it is read with an appropriate level of feeling. The reader, though, should have learned how to pronounce the names of persons and places. A significant number are pronounced incorrectly.
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- Jeff
- 2012/04/21
VERY WELL DONE
I Have to admit that I stalled on this for awhile, but was ampaly rewarded for returning to this listen and finishing. What a story! what a man! A remarkable book in the end. I would label this REQUIRED READING for the history revealed from many different critical points. Aspects of this book still haunt me. A very well researched, revealing and rewarding read. Well written and narrated
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- Ben
- 2010/01/25
Interesting Man - Reader not so much...
I found the choppy editing of the audio distracting, and the reader's attempts at foreign pronunciation forced. Sometimes it seemed that the pronunciation was corrected, such as it was, by obviously reinserting the word into the audio stream. In addition, the reader's habit of taking on the voices of the various speakers was not entirely successful.
In the end, it was hard on the ears and I stopped listening after three or four hours. Too bad, since the best was yet to come, I hear.
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- David
- 2008/01/01
Thorough and Revealing
If you have enough patience for this very thorough biography, then you will be rewarded. By the end, I had come to believe that I had a good grasp of who Oppenheimer was, and what he had contributed to the scientific community. I also really, really hated McCarthyism, and felt that the country had done the man a deservice. I had heard much about the events of the Manhattan Project before hearing this, but I knew very little about the early days of post-war bomb development. I found those details especially rivetting.
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- Steve
- 2014/03/21
Spoilt by a very poor recording
Imagine you’re reading a great book: perhaps you delight not only in the author’s skill with the pen, but also that of the typographer who has lovingly crafted the spacing, the line breaks and the hyphenation to ensure that the appearance of the type is as appealing as the story itself. Imagine then, that you turn the page only to find a single sentence set, not only in a different typeface, but also larger and poorly spaced. Reading further, you find odd passages here and there, sometimes just a few words, sometimes complete paragraphs that are set completely differently to the rest of the book. That is the visual equivalent of listening to this book, the recording of which is continuously interspersed with re-recorded passages that have a different quality than the original.
Although I’d read complaints about this in other reviews, I never imagined the extent to which it occurs. In almost every case, it’s a sentence that contains a name that’s either foreign or difficult to pronounce. It occurs so often that you can’t help wondering if it wouldn’t have been easier to have simply re-recorded the entire book. It’s jarring and, for me at least, interrupted and spoilt the narrative.
In a book that, thanks to the nature of its content, is riddled with foreign names and complicated words, you’d think that the producer, at least, would have either checked the pronunciations or chosen a narrator a little more au fait with foreign expressions and pronunciation. It’s very sad, because it’s an otherwise fascinating and well written book.
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- Tonkabean
- 2020/09/05
wonderfully in depth and well read
a really great listen, raising really interesting questions and enabling what feels like a very thorough and nuanced understanding of the man and his life.
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- Hareth
- 2019/03/16
A Terrific Narration of a Riveting Life
Before I listened to this audiobook everything I knew about Oppenheimer came either from "The Pope of Physics" by Hoerlin and Segre, or from the internet. The book came to my attention searching Audible for books on the subject and had excellent reviews even if a monstrous length. All the same I decided to power through it so that I could hear the story and was pleasantly surprised to find (almost) perfect narration and quite coherent prose. The narration was succinct, emotive and enrapturing with very little to fault. The only issues I found were when the narrator got to French words, which were clearly dubbed in later (took nothing away) and the odd 2-second pause to flip the page. At 26 hours that is a mammoth achievement and I commend the narrator for his endurance. The story itself was a fascinsting and captivating one, even more so than the aforementioned book on Fermi. The book goes into quite a lot of depth about his early life and for good reason in developing the character later on. His academic career is developed but I would say that he did not have one quite as prolific as some of the other great physicists of his era. The real point at which his eminence comes out is when he started workint at Los Alamos, and it is here the most complex plots truly develop. The quality of description of the book on life at the site is something that I found made it superior to the Fermi book, and it seems that this is the point at which the titular character truly shines. Following this I must say there is not much left other than the trial, and the book gives subtle and indepth coverage of how these played out. I cannot say that I had much prior knowledge other than Teller's role in them, but the way they describe how it came out and the aftermath of the affair gives insight one cannot get from other sources. This book is a very detailed description of Oppenheimer's life and I was able to follow it all the way through because of the quality of prose and narration.
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- Ben Leacock
- 2019/02/09
Brilliant!
Not the best audio quality at times where the volume and tone seem to switch but worth pushing through. Superb look into the life of a man with such a great mind!
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- Dan W.
- 2018/02/26
Unfortunately I returned it.
As others have said, the narration has been seamlessly spliced in to areas where the pronunciation needed to be corrected *sarcasm*. The first splice is the worst. The others later in the book sound like the narrator has decided to put a bucket on his head while talking.
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- B. And R. Skibo-Birney
- 2016/06/26
Phenomenal book
If you have any interest in science, politics, drama, tragedy, philosophy or ethics, this is a must-read.
Only quibble is with the audio quality in some parts of the book but overall a great recording and performance of an outstanding book.
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- Anju
- 2018/03/16
Touching
Never knew the entire story of Oppenheimer until I heard this book. The Amazing but sad journey of a intellect is minutely captured in this book. And once again a great narration from Jeff. I always knew Openheimer as the father of the atom bomb - after reading this book I now know that he won’t be proud of that title.
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- Amazon Customer
- 2017/09/05
Brilliant and enlightening
A comprehensive look at the ambiguous life of one of the great men of modern history whose influence can be felt even today.