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Author:Kai Bird
American Prometheus: The Triumph and Tragedy of J. Robert Oppenheimer
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...- $44.95
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American Prometheus: The Triumph and Tragedy of J. Robert Oppenheimer
PULITZER PRIZE WINNER - The definitive biography of J. Robert Oppenheimer, 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...- $23.00
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American Prometheus: The Triumph and Tragedy of J. Robert Oppenheimer
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...- $44.95
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American Prometheus: The Triumph and Tragedy of J. Robert Oppenheimer
Author: Kai Bird, Martin J. SherwinISBN-10: 0375412026ISBN-13: 9780375412028Publisher: Knopf Publishing GroupLanguage: EnglishPublished: 05/01/2005Pages: 736Format: HardcoverWeight: 2.45lbsSize: 9.36h x 6.60w x 1.65dAward: National Book Critics Circle Award - WinnerAward: Ambassador Book Awards - WinnerAward: Lukas Prize Project - FinalistReview Citation(s): Ingram Advance 05/01/2005 pg. 43Library...- $50.00
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Crossing Mandelbaum Gate: Coming of Age Between the Arabs and Israelis, 1956-1978
PULITZER PRIZE WINNER KAI BIRD'S fascinating memoir of his early years spent in Israel, Jordan, Egypt, Saudi Arabia, and Lebanon provides an original and illuminating perspective into the Arab-Israeli conflict. Weeks before the Suez War of 1956, four-year-old Kai Bird, son of a garrulous,...- $26.99
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Author:Kai Bird
The Chairman: John J. McCloy & the Making of the American Establishment
Against the backgrounds of World War II, the Cold War, the construction of Pax Americana, the Cuban missile crisis, the Kennedy assassination, and Vietnam, Bird shows us McCloy's astonishing rise from self-described "chore boy" to "chairman of the Establishment." His powerful circle shaped the...- $44.99
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Author:Kai Bird
The Color of Truth: McGeorge Bundy and William Bundy: Brothers in Arms
Grey is the color of truth. So observed Mac Bundy in defending America's intervention in Vietnam. Kai Bird brilliantly captures this ambiguity in his revelatory look at Bundy and his brother William, two of the most influential policymakers of the Kennedy and Johnson administrations....- $31.95
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Author:Kai Bird
The Good Spy: The Life and Death of Robert Ames
The Good Spy is Pulitzer Prize-winning biographer Kai Bird's compelling portrait of the remarkable life and death of one of the most important operatives in CIA history - a man who, had he lived, might have helped heal the rift between Arabs and the...- $18.00
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Author:Kai Bird
The Outlier: The Unfinished Presidency of Jimmy Carter
"Important . . . [a] landmark presidential biography . . . Bird is able to build a persuasive case that the Carter presidency deserves this new look."--The New York Times Book Review An essential re-evaluation of the complex triumphs and tragedies of Jimmy Carter's...- $20.00
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The Outlier: The Unfinished Presidency of Jimmy Carter
"Important . . . [a] landmark presidential biography . . . Bird is able to build a persuasive case that the Carter presidency deserves this new look."--The New York Times Book Review An essential re-evaluation of the complex triumphs and tragedies of Jimmy Carter's...- $38.00
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