Kai Bird – författare & böcker

Oppenheimer

Inbunden, Svenska, 2024

299 kr

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Han har blivit en av nittonhundratalets mest ikoniska gestalter – fysikern som ledde arbetet med att framställa atombomben och öppnade ett nytt kapitel i historien.

I denna Pulitzerprisvinnande biografi över Robert Oppenheimer tecknas bilden av en motsägelsefull figurs uppgång och fall under en av den moderna historiens mest omtumlande perioder. Få har genomlevt 1900-talets omvälvningar som Robert Oppenheimer. Han ledde Manhattanprojektets kapplöpning mot nazisterna, utsattes för McCarthyismens jakt på vänstersympatisörer och konfronterades med det vetenskapliga framstegets moraliska konsekvenser när bomberna slutligen föll över de japanska städerna Hiroshima och Nagasaki.

Oppenheimer ligger till grund för Christopher Nolans kritikerrosade film med samma namn.

“En gripande biografi, och en av de bästa sammanfattningar som skrivits om den vetenskapsbaserade säkerhetspolitikens epok.”Sverker Sörlin, DN

“Den definitiva biografin… Oppenheimers liv påverkar oss inte. Det hemsöker oss.”Newsweek

“Det har skrivits åtskilliga böcker om Oppenheimer men ingen står sig mot denna utomordentliga boks imponerande bredd och djup.” The Miami Herald

Good Spy

The Life and Death of Robert Ames

AvKai Bird

Häftad, Engelska, 2015

220 kr

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American Prometheus (Pulitzer Prize Winner): The Triumph and Tragedy of J. Robert Oppenheimer

AvKai Bird,Martin J. Sherwin

Inbunden, Engelska, 2005

523 kr

American Prometheus

Triumph and Tragedy of Robert Oppenheimer

AvKai Bird,Martin J. Sherwin

Häftad, Engelska, 2006

182 kr

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THE INSPIRATION FOR THE ACADEMY AWARD®-WINNING MAJOR MOTION PICTURE OPPENHEIMER "A riveting account of one of history's most essential and paradoxical figures."-Christopher Nolan

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - 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 himself confronting the moral consequences of scientific progress.

In this magisterial, acclaimed biography twenty-five years in the making, Kai Bird and Martin Sherwin capture Oppenheimer's life and times, from his early career to his central role in the Cold War. This is biography and history at its finest, riveting and deeply informative. "A masterful account of Oppenheimer's rise and fall, set in the context of the turbulent decades of America's own transformation. It is a tour de force." -Los Angeles Times Book Review "A work of voluminous scholarship and lucid insight, unifying its multifaceted portrait with a keen grasp of Oppenheimer's essential nature.... It succeeds in deeply fathoming his most damaging, self-contradictory behavior." -The New York Times

Outlier

The Unfinished Presidency Of Jimmy Carter

AvKai Bird

Inbunden, Engelska, 2021

389 kr

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Outlier

The Unfinished Presidency of Jimmy Carter

AvKai Bird

Häftad, Engelska, 2022

207 kr

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Nyhet

Oppenheimer and the Atomic Bomb

Young Readers Edition of AMERICAN PROMETHEUS: The Triumph and Tragedy of J. Robert Oppenheimer

AvKai Bird,Martin J. Sherwin

Häftad, Engelska, 2026, 9-12 år

106 kr

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J. Robert Oppenheimer was a brilliant physicist who led the American effort to build the atomic bomb during World War II, and who later found himself confronting the moral consequences of the revolutionary weapon he helped create. Readers of all ages will witness the rise and fall of a scientific and historical icon in this masterful new edition. Exploring his childhood, his secret work on the bomb, his central role in the Cold War, and his tragic downfall, this quintessential biography is history at its finest. Filled with dozens of photographs and updated information.

Color of Truth

McGeorge Bundy and William Bundy: Brothers in Arms

AvKai Bird

Häftad, Engelska, 2000

316 kr

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From the Pulitzer Prize–winning coauthor of American Prometheus—this biography of the Bundy Brothers inspired the Academy Award–winning film Oppenheimer.In this definitive biography of McGeorge Bundy and William Bundy, two of "the best and the brightest" who advised presidents about peace and war during the most dangerous years of the Cold War, Kai Bird pens a portrait of the fiercely patriotic, brilliant, and brazenly self-confident men who directed a steady escalation of a war they did not believe could be won. Drawing on seven years of research, nearly one hundred interviews, and scores of still-classified top secret documents in a masterful reevaluation of America's actions throughout the Cold War and Vietnam, The Color of Truth tells the tale of the anti-communist liberals who, despite their grave doubts about sending Americans to fight in Southeast Asia, became key architects of America's war in Vietnam. Like the bestselling The Wise Men, this dual biography is both an inside account of the making of US foreign policy in an era of nuclear weapons and a stunning group portrait of the heirs of the Wise Men—including Robert McNamara, George Ball, and Robert Kennedy—and the presidents they served.

American Scoundrel

AvKai Bird,Susan Goldmark

Inbunden, Engelska, 2026

323 kr

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From the Pulitzer Prize-winning co-author of American Prometheus, inspiration for the Oscar-winning sensation Oppenheimer, a biography of Roy Cohn – arguably the mastermind behind the current arc of American political life, including the ascent of Donald Trump.From the 1950s to the 1980s, the many dramas of American political life had one common denominator: Roy Cohn. In his twenties, the infamous young prosecutor sent Julius and Ethel Rosenberg to the electric chair and burned 30,000 books by ‘communist’ authors, becoming the baby-faced symbol of McCarthyism. By his thirties, Cohn, with a red scar that ran down his nose from a botched childhood operation, was known in New York City as the Mafia’s hired legal gun. In his forties, he partied with the glitterati at Studio 54 and became friends with Richard Nixon. In his fifties, Cohn was invited to Reagan’s Oval Office. Nancy Reagan called Cohn often for advice and gossip – indeed, Cohn had an almost insatiable interest in gossip, and much of his influence over the years derived from his transactional relationship with gossip columnists. Perhaps most significantly, he mentored the young Donald Trump. The real estate developer, whom Cohn called his ‘best friend’, phoned him a dozen times a day.Cohn considered himself the one lawyer in town who could always escape the consequences. Indicted by the Feds on three occasions for bribery, perjury, extortion and other white-collar crimes, he was acquitted every time. To achieve his ends, he did whatever it took. ‘If you need somebody to get vicious’, Trump once said, ‘hire Roy Cohn.’Years after his death of AIDS in 1986, Cohn emerged as a central figure in Tony Kushner’s Pulitzer Prize-winning 1992 play, Angels in America: A Gay Fantasia on National Themes. Cohn’s feistiness, his surly defiance – and, yes, his charm – were frequently flourished to conceal vast insecurities, particularly regarding his sexuality. As his friend Sidney Zion once wrote, ‘Roy lived in a closet that was the oddest in history – a closet with neon lights – but he maintained it fiercely.’A streetfighter, self-promoting hustler, and scheming conman, Cohn was a nefarious actor in one unscrupulous tale after another. He was a true Zelig of the dark side.

American Scoundrel

AvKai Bird,Susan Goldmark

Häftad, Engelska, 2027

208 kr

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From the Pulitzer Prize-winning co-author of American Prometheus, inspiration for the Oscar-winning sensation Oppenheimer, a biography of Roy Cohn – arguably the mastermind behind the current arc of American political life, including the ascent of Donald Trump.From the 1950s to the 1980s, the many dramas of American political life had one common denominator: Roy Cohn. In his twenties, the infamous young prosecutor sent Julius and Ethel Rosenberg to the electric chair and burned 30,000 books by ‘communist’ authors, becoming the baby-faced symbol of McCarthyism. By his thirties, Cohn, with a red scar that ran down his nose from a botched childhood operation, was known in New York City as the Mafia’s hired legal gun. In his forties, he partied with the glitterati at Studio 54 and became friends with Richard Nixon. In his fifties, Cohn was invited to Reagan’s Oval Office. Nancy Reagan called Cohn often for advice and gossip – indeed, Cohn had an almost insatiable interest in gossip, and much of his influence over the years derived from his transactional relationship with gossip columnists. Perhaps most significantly, he mentored the young Donald Trump. The real estate developer, whom Cohn called his ‘best friend’, phoned him a dozen times a day.Cohn considered himself the one lawyer in town who could always escape the consequences. Indicted by the Feds on three occasions for bribery, perjury, extortion and other white-collar crimes, he was acquitted every time. To achieve his ends, he did whatever it took. ‘If you need somebody to get vicious’, Trump once said, ‘hire Roy Cohn.’Years after his death of AIDS in 1986, Cohn emerged as a central figure in Tony Kushner’s Pulitzer Prize-winning 1992 play, Angels in America: A Gay Fantasia on National Themes. Cohn’s feistiness, his surly defiance – and, yes, his charm – were frequently flourished to conceal vast insecurities, particularly regarding his sexuality. As his friend Sidney Zion once wrote, ‘Roy lived in a closet that was the oddest in history – a closet with neon lights – but he maintained it fiercely.’A streetfighter, self-promoting hustler, and scheming conman, Cohn was a nefarious actor in one unscrupulous tale after another. He was a true Zelig of the dark side.

Crossing Mandelbaum Gate: Coming of Age Between the Arabs and Israelis, 1956-1978

AvKai Bird

Häftad, Engelska, 2011

278 kr

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Chairman

John J. McCloy & the Making of the American Establishment

AvKai Bird

Häftad, Engelska, 2017

408 kr

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American Scoundrel: Roy Cohn's Dark Journey from Joe McCarthy to Donald Trump

AvKai Bird,Susan Goldmark

Inbunden, Engelska, 2026

365 kr

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American Prometheus

The Triumph and Tragedy of J. Robert Oppenheimer

AvKai Bird,Martin J. Sherwin

Häftad, Engelska, 2023

165 kr

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***THE INSPIRATION FOR OPPENHEIMER, WINNER OF 7 OSCARS, INCLUDING BEST PICTURE, BEST DIRECTOR AND BEST ACTOR***THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLERWINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE FOR NONFICTION'Reads like a thriller, gripping and terrifying' Sunday TimesPhysicist and polymath, as familiar with Hindu scriptures as he was with quantum mechanics, J. Robert Oppenheimer - director of the Manhattan Project that developed the atomic bomb - was the most famous scientist of his generation. In their meticulous and riveting biography, Kai Bird and Martin J. Sherwin reveal a brilliant, ambitious, complex and flawed man, profoundly involved with some of the momentous events of the twentieth century.