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American Scoundrel
Roy Cohn's Dark Journey from Joe McCarthy to Donald Trump
AvKai Bird,Susan Goldmark
Inbunden, Engelska, 2026
337 kr
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** THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER **From the Pulitzer Prize-winning coauthor of American Prometheus, inspiration for the box-office sensation Oppenheimer, a penetrating biography of super-lawyer and political fixer Roy Cohn, whose shocking exploits over four decades have shaped the modern political era, most prominently 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 as the chief aide to Senator Joe McCarthy became the baby-faced symbol of ruthless communist-hunting. By his thirties, Cohn had begun working as the Mafia’s hired legal gun. In his forties, he was an informal adviser to Richard Nixon. In his fifties, he partied with the glitterati at Studio 54 and visited the Reagan White House, where he traded gossip with the first lady. Perhaps most significantly, Cohn mentored the young and ambitious Donald Trump, who telephoned the older man daily and studiously emulated not only his mannerisms but also his core philosophies. Years after his death in 1986 from AIDS-related complications, Cohn emerged as a central figure in Tony Kushner’s Pulitzer Prize-winning play Angels in America. Cohn’s feistiness, his surly defiance – and sometimes his charm – were frequently flourished to conceal vast insecurities, particularly regarding his closeted sexuality. A street fighter and self-promoting hustler, Cohn was a nefarious actor in a startling number of history-shaping events whose influence resonates to the present day. Drawing on deep archival research, original interviews and newly available material, American Scoundrel is an authoritative portrait of Cohn and an unsettling examination of how corruption, grievance and media spectacle moved into the centre of American public life.Kai Bird with Susan Goldmark, New York Times bestseller, September 2026
Oppenheimer
AvKai Bird,Martin J. Sherwin
Inbunden, Svenska, 2024
298 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
American Prometheus (Pulitzer Prize Winner)
Triumph and Tragedy of Robert Oppenheimer
AvKai Bird,Martin J. Sherwin
Häftad, Engelska, 2006
186 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.A Kirkus Reviews Best Nonfiction Book of the CenturyIn 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
American Prometheus (Pulitzer Prize Winner)
The Triumph and Tragedy of J. Robert Oppenheimer
AvMartin J. Sherwin,Kai Bird
E-bok
Engelska, 2007
33 kr
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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 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.From the Trade Paperback edition.
Good Spy
The Life and Death of Robert Ames
AvKai Bird
Häftad, Engelska, 2015
249 kr
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Good Spy
The Life and Death of Robert Ames
AvKai Bird
E-bok
Engelska, 2014
179 kr
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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 West. On April 18, 1983, a bomb exploded outside the American Embassy in Beirut, killing 63 people. The attack was a geopolitical turning point. It marked the beginning of Hezbollah as a political force, but even more important, it eliminated America’s most influential and effective intelligence officer in the Middle East – CIA operative Robert Ames. What set Ames apart from his peers was his extraordinary ability to form deep, meaningful connections with key Arab intelligence figures. Some operatives relied on threats and subterfuge, but Ames worked by building friendships and emphasizing shared values – never more notably than with Yasir Arafat’s charismatic intelligence chief and heir apparent Ali Hassan Salameh (aka “The Red Prince”). Ames’ deepening relationship with Salameh held the potential for a lasting peace. Within a few years, though, both men were killed by assassins, and America’s relations with the Arab world began heading down a path that culminated in 9/11, the War on Terror, and the current fog of mistrust. Bird, who as a child lived in the Beirut Embassy and knew Ames as a neighbor when he was twelve years old, spent years researching The Good Spy. Not only does the book draw on hours of interviews with Ames’ widow, and quotes from hundreds of Ames’ private letters, it’s woven from interviews with scores of current and former American, Israeli, and Palestinian intelligence officers as well as other players in the Middle East “Great Game.” What emerges is a masterpiece-level narrative of the making of a CIA officer, a uniquely insightful history of twentieth-century conflict in the Middle East, and an absorbing hour-by-hour account of the Beirut Embassy bombing. Even more impressive, Bird draws on his reporter’s skills to deliver a full dossier on the bombers and expose the shocking truth of where the attack’s mastermind resides today.
American Prometheus (Pulitzer Prize Winner): The Triumph and Tragedy of J. Robert Oppenheimer
AvKai Bird,Martin J. Sherwin
Inbunden, Engelska, 2005
539 kr
Outlier
The Unfinished Presidency of Jimmy Carter
AvKai Bird
Häftad, Engelska, 2022
216 kr
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“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 ReviewAn essential re-evaluation of the complex triumphs and tragedies of Jimmy Carter’s presidential legacy—from the expert biographer and Pulitzer Prize–winning co-author of American PrometheusFour decades after Ronald Reagan’s landslide win in 1980, Jimmy Carter’s one-term presidency is often labeled a failure; indeed, many Americans view Carter as the only ex-president to have used the White House as a stepping-stone to greater achievements. But in retrospect the Carter political odyssey is a rich and human story, marked by both formidable accomplishments and painful political adversity. In this deeply researched, brilliantly written account, Pulitzer Prize–winning biographer Kai Bird deftly unfolds the Carter saga as a tragic tipping point in American history.As president, Carter was not merely an outsider; he was an outlier. He was the only president in a century to grow up in the heart of the Deep South, and his born-again Christianity made him the most openly religious president in memory. This outlier brought to the White House a rare mix of humility, candor, and unnerving self-confidence that neither Washington nor America was ready to embrace. Decades before today’s public reckoning with the vast gulf between America’s ethos and its actions, Carter looked out on a nation torn by race and demoralized by Watergate and Vietnam and prescribed a radical self-examination from which voters recoiled. The cost of his unshakable belief in doing the right thing would be losing his re-election bid—and witnessing the ascendance of Reagan.In these remarkable pages, Bird traces the arc of Carter’s administration, from his aggressive domestic agenda to his controversial foreign policy record, taking readers inside the Oval Office and through Carter’s battles with both a political establishment and a Washington press corps that proved as adversarial as any foreign power. Bird shows how issues still hotly debated today—from national health care to growing inequality and racism to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict—burned at the heart of Carter’s America, and consumed a president who found a moral duty in solving them.Drawing on interviews with Carter and members of his administration and recently declassified documents, Bird delivers a profound, clear-eyed evaluation of a leader whose legacy has been deeply misunderstood. The Outlier is the definitive account of an enigmatic presidency—both as it really happened and as it is remembered in the American consciousness.
Outlier
AvKai Bird
E-bok
Engelska, 2021
211 kr
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Oppenheimer and the Atomic Bomb
AvMartin J. Sherwin,Kai Bird
E-bok
Engelska, 2025
140 kr
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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
111 kr
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A young readers edition of the #1 New York Times bestselling, Pulitzer Prize-winning book American Prometheus was the inspiration for the blockbuster film, Oppenheimer.This brand-new edition introduces the next generation to one of the twentieth century's most iconic and complex global figures.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, this riveting and deeply informative account is now available to a middle and high school audience.
Color of Truth
McGeorge Bundy and William Bundy: Brothers in Arms
AvKai Bird
Häftad, Engelska, 2000
329 kr
Skickas inom 5-8 vardagar
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.
Divided City
Coming of Age Between the Arabs and Israelis
AvKai Bird
E-bok
Engelska, 2010
110 kr
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Crossing Mandelbaum Gate is a vivid memoir of an American boy growing up in the midst of the Arab-Israeli conflict, three major wars and three decades of political upheavals in the Middle East. Set in Jerusalem (1956-1958), Beirut (1970), Saudi Arabia (1962-1965), Amman and Cairo (1965-1967), Bird''s book explains through a blend of memoir and history why the Western experience in the Middle East has been so turbulent. Through Bird''s Zelig-like presence, the reader experiences the Suez War of 1956, the June 1967 War and the Black September hijackings of 1970 that led to the Jordanian Civil War. Bird''s memoir shows how all of these momentous events led to the rise and tragic downfall of a secular Arab nationalist ethos -- only to be replaced by the rise of a fundamentalist, politically reactionary Islamist movement. The narrative history tells the stories of such illuminating figures as life-long Jerusalem resident George Antonius, author of The Arab Awakening, and his charismatic wife; Jordan''s King Hussein and his CIA connections; the businessman Salem bin Laden, Osama''s older brother and a family friend; Saudi kings Faisal and Khalidl; President Nasser of Egypt; and Leila Khaled, the striking young Palestinian radical who hijacked one of the Black September planes. The son of a U.S. Foreign Service officer, Kai Bird spent his formative years with the Arabs, but he ended up marrying the only daughter of two Holocaust survivors. This Shoah survival story becomes a part of Bird''s own personal narrative, and provides him with a deeper understanding of the historical relationship between the destruction of European Jewry and the Arab-Israeli conflict. This extraordinary memoir by a Pulitzer-prize-winning historian sheds new light on all the wars of the Middle East fought in the name of identity.
American Scoundrel
Roy Cohn's Dark Journey from Joe McCarthy to Donald Trump
AvKai Bird,Susan Goldmark
Häftad, Engelska, 2027
208 kr
Kommande
** THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER **From the Pulitzer Prize-winning coauthor of American Prometheus, inspiration for the box-office sensation Oppenheimer, a penetrating biography of super-lawyer and political fixer Roy Cohn, whose shocking exploits over four decades have shaped the modern political era, most prominently 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 as the chief aide to Senator Joe McCarthy became the baby-faced symbol of ruthless communist-hunting. By his thirties, Cohn had begun working as the Mafia’s hired legal gun. In his forties, he was an informal adviser to Richard Nixon. In his fifties, he partied with the glitterati at Studio 54 and visited the Reagan White House, where he traded gossip with the first lady. Perhaps most significantly, Cohn mentored the young and ambitious Donald Trump, who telephoned the older man daily and studiously emulated not only his mannerisms but also his core philosophies. Years after his death in 1986 from AIDS-related complications, Cohn emerged as a central figure in Tony Kushner’s Pulitzer Prize-winning play Angels in America. Cohn’s feistiness, his surly defiance – and sometimes his charm – were frequently flourished to conceal vast insecurities, particularly regarding his closeted sexuality. A street fighter and self-promoting hustler, Cohn was a nefarious actor in a startling number of history-shaping events whose influence resonates to the present day. Drawing on deep archival research, original interviews and newly available material, American Scoundrel is an authoritative portrait of Cohn and an unsettling examination of how corruption, grievance and media spectacle moved into the centre of American public life.Kai Bird with Susan Goldmark, New York Times bestseller, September 2026
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American Scoundrel
Roy Cohn's Dark Journey from Joe McCarthy to Donald Trump
AvSusan Goldmark,Kai Bird
E-bok
Engelska, 2026
269 kr
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** THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER **From the Pulitzer Prize-winning coauthor of American Prometheus, inspiration for the box-office sensation Oppenheimer, a penetrating biography of super-lawyer and political fixer Roy Cohn, whose shocking exploits over four decades have shaped the modern political era, most prominently 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 as the chief aide to Senator Joe McCarthy became the baby-faced symbol of ruthless communist-hunting. By his thirties, Cohn had begun working as the Mafias hired legal gun. In his forties, he was an informal adviser to Richard Nixon. In his fifties, he partied with the glitterati at Studio 54 and visited the Reagan White House, where he traded gossip with the first lady. Perhaps most significantly, Cohn mentored the young and ambitious Donald Trump, who telephoned the older man daily and studiously emulated not only his mannerisms but also his core philosophies. Years after his death in 1986 from AIDS-related complications, Cohn emerged as a central figure in Tony Kushners Pulitzer Prize-winning play Angels in America. Cohns feistiness, his surly defiance and sometimes his charm were frequently flourished to conceal vast insecurities, particularly regarding his closeted sexuality. A street fighter and self-promoting hustler, Cohn was a nefarious actor in a startling number of history-shaping events whose influence resonates to the present day. Drawing on deep archival research, original interviews and newly available material, American Scoundrel is an authoritative portrait of Cohn and an unsettling examination of how corruption, grievance and media spectacle moved into the centre of American public life.Kai Bird with Susan Goldmark, New York Times bestseller, September 2026
Crossing Mandelbaum Gate: Coming of Age Between the Arabs and Israelis, 1956-1978
AvKai Bird
Häftad, Engelska, 2011
285 kr
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Crossing Mandelbaum Gate
Coming of Age Between the Arabs and Israelis, 1956-1978
AvKai Bird
E-bok
Engelska, 2010
169 kr
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*From the Pulitzer Prize-winning coauthor of American Prometheus—the inspiration for the Academy Award-winning film Oppenheimer* Now with a new introduction, 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.In 1956, four-year-old Kai Bird, son of a charming American diplomat, moved to Jerusalem with his family. Kai could hear church bells and the Muslim call to prayer and watch as donkeys and camels competed with cars for space on the narrow streets. Each day on his way to school, Kai was driven through Mandelbaum Gate, where armed soldiers guarded the line separating Israeli-controlled West Jerusalem from Arab-controlled East. Bird would spend much of his life crossing such lines—as a child in Jerusalem, Saudi Arabia, and Egypt, and later, as a young man in Lebanon. In Crossing Mandelbaum Gate, a narrative that “rips along like a spy novel” (The New York Times Book Review), Bird’s retelling of “events such as Suez in 1956, the Six Day War of 1967, and Black September in 1970 are as clear and fresh as yesterday” (The Spectator, UK). Bird vividly portrays emblematic figures like George Antonius, author of The Arab Awakening; Jordan’s King Hussein; the Palestinian hijacker Leila Khaled; Salem bin Laden; Saudi King Faisal; President Nasser of Egypt; and Hillel Kook, the forgotten rescuer of more than 100,000 Jews during World War II. Bird, his parents sympathetic to Palestinian self-determination and his wife the daughter of two Holocaust survivors, has written a “kaleidoscopic and captivating” (Publishers Weekly) personal history of a troubled region and an indispensable addition to the literature on the modern Middle East.
American Prometheus
The Triumph and Tragedy of J. Robert Oppenheimer
AvMartin J. Sherwin,Kai Bird
Ljudbok
Engelska, 2006
510 kr
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The inspiration for the major motion picture Oppenheimer, this is the definitive biography of J. Robert Oppenheimer, 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.
American Prometheus is the first full-scale biography of J. Robert Oppenheimer, “father of the atomic bomb,” the brilliant, charismatic physicist who led the effort to capture the awesome fire of the sun for his country in time of war.
Immediately after Hiroshima, J. Robert Oppenheimer became the most famous scientist of his generation—one of the iconic figures of the twentieth century, the embodiment of modern man confronting the consequences of scientific progress.
He was the author of a radical proposal to place international controls over atomic materials, an idea that is still relevant today. He opposed the development of the hydrogen bomb and criticized the Air Force’s plans to fight an infinitely dangerous nuclear war
In the now almost-forgotten hysteria of the early 1950s, his ideas were anathema to powerful advocates of a massive nuclear buildup, and, in response, Atomic Energy Commission chairman Lewis Strauss, superbomb advocate Edward Teller, and FBI director J. Edgar Hoover worked behind the scenes to have a hearing board find that Oppenheimer could not be trusted with America’s nuclear secrets.
American Prometheus sets forth Oppenheimer’s life and times in revealing and unprecedented detail. Exhaustively researched, it is based on thousands of records and letters gathered from archives in America and abroad, on massive FBI files, and on close to a hundred interviews with Oppenheimer’s friends, relatives, and colleagues.
The book follows him from his earliest education at the turn of the twentieth century at New York City’s Ethical Culture School through personal crises at Harvard and Cambridge universities. Then to Germany, where he studied quantum physics with the world’s most accomplished theorists; and to Berkeley, California, where he established, during the 1930s, the leading American school of theoretical physics and where he became deeply involved with social justice causes and their advocates, many of whom were communists.
The book follows him to Los Alamos, New Mexico, he transformed a bleak mesa into the world’s most potent nuclear weapons laboratory—and where he himself was transformed—and finally, to the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, which he directed from 1947 to 1966.
American Prometheus is a rich evocation of America at midcentury, 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. It is at once biography and history and is essential to our understanding of our recent past—and of our choices for the future.
Color of Truth
McGeorge Bundy and William Bundy: Brothers in Arms
AvKai Bird
E-bok
Engelska, 2017
209 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.
Chairman: John J McCloy & The Making of the American Establishment
AvKai Bird
E-bok
Engelska, 2017
182 kr
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“Exhaustively researched and remarkably evenhanded.” —The New York Times “Absorbing…the definitive life story.” —Kirkus Reviews “A fascinating study.” —Los Angeles Times In The Chairman, the authoritative biography of John J. McCloy, Pulitzer Prize-winning author Kai Bird chronicles the life of the man labeled “the most influential private citizen in America.”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 postwar globe. But McCloy stood out among them as a towering figure of achievement: as a Wall Street lawyer who earned the confidence of captains of industry and presidents; as Henry Stimson’s right-hand man at the War Department; as president of the World Bank and chairman of the Chase financial empire; and as presidential adviser. Bird captures every facet of this self-made man. We see McCloy’s commercial acumen as the most in-demand lawyer of Wall Street; his dictatorial will as high commissioner of occupied Germany; and his stoic loyalty as adviser to Presidents FDR, Truman, Eisenhower, Kennedy, Johnson, Carter, Ford, and Reagan. Bird brilliantly explores how McCloy came to epitomize the American Establishment and the values of a generation that led the United States through bitter war and unparalleled prosperity.
Chairman
John J. McCloy & the Making of the American Establishment
AvKai Bird
Häftad, Engelska, 2017
426 kr
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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 postwar globe. But McCloy stood out among them as a towering figure of achievement: as a Wall Street lawyer who earned the confidence of captains of industry and presidents; as Henry Stimson’s right-hand man at the War Department; as president of the World Bank and chairman of the Chase financial empire; and as presidential adviser. Bird captures every facet of this self-made man. We see McCloy’s commercial acumen as the most in-demand lawyer of Wall Street; his dictatorial will as high commissioner of occupied Germany; and his stoic loyalty as adviser to Presidents FDR, Truman, Eisenhower, Kennedy, Johnson, Carter, Ford, and Reagan. Bird brilliantly explores how McCloy came to epitomize the American Establishment and the values of a generation that led the United States through bitter war and unparalleled prosperity.
American Scoundrel
Roy Cohn's Dark Journey from Joe McCarthy to Donald Trump
AvKai Bird,Susan Goldmark
Inbunden, Engelska, 2026
337 kr
Kommande
A narrative masterwork. Bird vividly creates the sinister web of charm and deceit that Cohn was able to spin through his decades at the very center of power. Marie Brenner, award-winning writer-at-large for Vanity Fair and coproducer of the documentary Wheres My Roy Cohn? From the Pulitzer Prizewinning coauthor of American Prometheus, inspiration for the box-office sensation Oppenheimer, a penetrating biography of super-lawyer and political fixer Roy Cohn, whose shocking exploits over four decades have shaped the modern political era, most prominently 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 as the chief aide to Senator Joe McCarthy became the baby-faced symbol of ruthless communist-hunting. By his thirties, Cohn had begun working as the Mafias hired legal gun. In his forties, he was an informal adviser to Richard Nixon. In his fifties, he partied with the glitterati at Studio 54 and visited the Reagan White House where he traded gossip with the first lady. Perhaps most significant, Cohn mentored the young Donald Trump, who telephoned the older man daily and studiously emulated not only his mannerisms but core philosophies. Years after his death in 1986 from AIDS-related complications, Cohn emerged as a central figure in Tony Kushners Pulitzer Prizewinning play Angels in America. Cohns feistiness, his surly defianceand, yes, his charmwere frequently flourished to conceal vast insecurities, particularly regarding his closeted sexuality.A street fighter, self-promoting hustler, and a true Zelig of the dark side, Cohn was a nefarious actor in a startling number of history-shaping events whose influence resonates to the present day.
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American Scoundrel
Roy Cohn's Dark Journey from Joe McCarthy to Donald Trump
AvSusan Goldmark,Kai Bird
E-bok
Engelska, 2026
222 kr
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INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER A narrative masterwork. Bird vividly creates the sinister web of charm and deceit that Cohn was able to spin through his decades at the very center of power. Marie Brenner, award-winning writer-at-large for Vanity Fair and coproducer of the documentary Wheres My Roy Cohn? From the Pulitzer Prizewinning coauthor of American Prometheus, inspiration for the box-office sensation Oppenheimer, a penetrating biography of super-lawyer and political fixer Roy Cohn, whose shocking exploits over four decades have shaped the modern political era, most prominently 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 as the chief aide to Senator Joe McCarthy became the baby-faced symbol of ruthless communist-hunting. By his thirties, Cohn had begun working as the Mafias hired legal gun. In his forties, he was an informal adviser to Richard Nixon. In his fifties, he partied with the glitterati at Studio 54 and visited the Reagan White House where he traded gossip with the first lady. Perhaps most significant, Cohn mentored the young Donald Trump, who telephoned the older man daily and studiously emulated not only his mannerisms but core philosophies. Years after his death in 1986 from AIDS-related complications, Cohn emerged as a central figure in Tony Kushners Pulitzer Prizewinning play Angels in America. Cohns feistiness, his surly defianceand, yes, his charmwere frequently flourished to conceal vast insecurities, particularly regarding his closeted sexuality.A street fighter, self-promoting hustler, and a true Zelig of the dark side, Cohn was a nefarious actor in a startling number of history-shaping events whose influence resonates to the present day.
American Prometheus
The Triumph and Tragedy of J. Robert Oppenheimer
AvKai Bird,Martin J. Sherwin
Häftad, Engelska, 2023
170 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.
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J. Robert Oppenheimer
AvKai Bird,Martin J. Sherwin
Häftad, Tyska
251 kr
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Oppenheimer
Die Biographie | Das Buch zum neuen Film von Christopher Nolan
AvMartin J. Sherwin,Kai Bird
E-bok
Tyska, 2024
170 kr
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Das Buch zum Kino-Highlight im Sommer 2023Oppenheimer wird eines der großen Kino-Highlights im Sommer 2023 sein. Das biografische Thriller-Drama über den »Vater der Atombombe« J. Robert Oppenheimer wartet mit einem beeindruckenden Hollywood-Cast auf: Oscar-Preisträger Casey Affleck, Emily Blunt, Matt Damon, Cillian Murpy, Gary Oldman und viele andere sind dabei. Der Film, bei dem Christopher Nolan für Regie und Drehbuch verantwortlich zeichnet, basiert auf dem gleichnamigen Sachbuch von Kai Bird und Martin J. Sherwin. Die Pulitzerpreis-gekrönte Biografie zeigt die Ambivalenzen eines Forschers, der sich zwischen Erkenntnisdrang und ethischer Verantwortung entscheiden muss.
Oppengejmer. Triumf i tragedija Amerikanskogo Prometeja
AvKai Bird,Martin J Sherwin
Inbunden, Ryska, 2023
306 kr
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Prometeo Americano. El Libro Que Inspiró La Película Oppenheimer / American Prometheus
AvKai Bird,Martin J. Sherwin
Inbunden, Spanska, 2023
402 kr
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Oppenheimer
AvKai Bird,Martin J. Sherwin
E-bok
Svenska, 2024
139 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
Oppenheimer and the Atomic Bomb
Young Readers Edition of AMERICAN PROMETHEUS: The Triumph and Tragedy of J. Robert Oppenheimer
AvKai Bird,Martin J. Sherwin
Inbunden, Engelska, 2025
203 kr
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A young readers edition of the #1 New York Times bestselling, Pulitzer Prize-winning book American Prometheus was the inspiration for the blockbuster film, Oppenheimer.This brand-new edition introduces the next generation to one of the twentieth century's most iconic and complex global figures.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, this riveting and deeply informative account is now available to a middle and high school audience.

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