Slickdeals is community-supported.  We may get paid by brands for deals, including promoted items.
Heads up, this deal has expired. Want to create a deal alert for this item?
expired Posted by phoinix | Staff • Feb 26, 2025
expired Posted by phoinix | Staff • Feb 26, 2025

American Prometheus: The Triumph and Tragedy of J. Robert Oppenheimer (eBook)

$2.00

$13

84% off
Amazon
18 Comments 16,806 Views
Visit Amazon
Good Deal
Save
Share
Deal Details
Various Digital Retailers have American Prometheus: The Triumph and Tragedy of J. Robert Oppenheimer (eBook) by Kai Bird, Martin J. Sherwin on sale for $1.99.

Thanks to Deal Hunter phoinix for sharing this deal.

Available from:About this title:
  • Page Length: 769 pages
  • 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.
  • The inspiration for the Academy award-winning major motion picture Oppenheimer

Editor's Notes

Written by jimmytx | Staff
  • About this Store:
  • Additional Information:
    • Rated 4.7 out of 5 stars on Amazon based on over 13k customer reviews.
    • Please see the original post for additional details and/or view the Wiki and forum comments for further helpful discussion if available.

Original Post

Written by phoinix | Staff
Product Info
Community Notes
About the Poster
Deal Details
Product Info
Community Notes
About the Poster
Various Digital Retailers have American Prometheus: The Triumph and Tragedy of J. Robert Oppenheimer (eBook) by Kai Bird, Martin J. Sherwin on sale for $1.99.

Thanks to Deal Hunter phoinix for sharing this deal.

Available from:About this title:
  • Page Length: 769 pages
  • 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.
  • The inspiration for the Academy award-winning major motion picture Oppenheimer

Editor's Notes

Written by jimmytx | Staff
  • About this Store:
  • Additional Information:
    • Rated 4.7 out of 5 stars on Amazon based on over 13k customer reviews.
    • Please see the original post for additional details and/or view the Wiki and forum comments for further helpful discussion if available.

Original Post

Written by phoinix | Staff

Community Voting

Deal Score
+55
Good Deal
Visit Amazon

Leave a Comment

Unregistered (You)

17 Comments

Sign up for a Slickdeals account to remove this ad.

Feb 27, 2025
148 Posts
Joined Jan 2017
Feb 27, 2025
Bobbizmo
Feb 27, 2025
148 Posts
This is a fantastic book and well worth the $2
Feb 27, 2025
895 Posts
Joined Nov 2011
Feb 27, 2025
jlwallnc
Feb 27, 2025
895 Posts
$2 is a no brainer -bought, thank you!
edit: had $1.50 "promotion" credit - I'm assuming it's left over kindle credits Ive already had? but it brought it down to 50 cents.
Last edited by jlwallnc February 26, 2025 at 06:15 PM.
1
Feb 27, 2025
3,570 Posts
Joined Aug 2006

This comment has been rated as unhelpful by Slickdeals users.

Feb 27, 2025
269 Posts
Joined Oct 2019
Feb 27, 2025
brad_headley
Feb 27, 2025
269 Posts
769 pages.. whew!!
Feb 27, 2025
2,288 Posts
Joined Dec 2008
Feb 27, 2025
revoc
Feb 27, 2025
2,288 Posts
Just borrow from the library for free. With ebooks you don't own them the same way you don't own library books. Amazon has control, not you. I haven't bought an ebook in years. I only buy physical now. If I didn't feel like buying I could just borrow from the library or use a free digital service like Hoopla.
6
Feb 27, 2025
116 Posts
Joined Mar 2010
Feb 27, 2025
sticknmove1
Feb 27, 2025
116 Posts
Listening to you took everything I have left
After your raps, I am become deaf
Pro
Feb 27, 2025
4,266 Posts
Joined Oct 2004
Feb 27, 2025
NCSU2008
Pro
Feb 27, 2025
4,266 Posts
If all the same prices, which avenue best to purchase? I have iphone and amazon prime. Think i have the nook app too. Any apps that can read books aloud?

Sign up for a Slickdeals account to remove this ad.

Feb 27, 2025
87 Posts
Joined Aug 2008
Feb 27, 2025
joeblough
Feb 27, 2025
87 Posts
Quote from revoc :
Just borrow from the library for free. With ebooks you don't own them the same way you don't own library books. Amazon has control, not you. I haven't bought an ebook in years. I only buy physical now. If I didn't feel like buying I could just borrow from the library or use a free digital service like Hoopla.
true with amazon. but kobo lets you download your books and there are ways to unlock the files and put them on your kindle. older ones anyway, not sure about newer ones.
Pro
Feb 27, 2025
644 Posts
Joined Jul 2007
Feb 27, 2025
M1sterio
Pro
Feb 27, 2025
644 Posts
Feb 27, 2025
198 Posts
Joined Dec 2013
Feb 27, 2025
Riiot
Feb 27, 2025
198 Posts
you won't own this, you only rent this under the mercy of Amazon.
It is only $2, but then you will build a large enough library with these sales' where you feel invested in staying in their ebook ecosystem.
Mar 1, 2025
15 Posts
Joined Nov 2016
Mar 1, 2025
canyoudealwithit
Mar 1, 2025
15 Posts
Thanks OP
Mar 2, 2025
301 Posts
Joined Jul 2018
Mar 2, 2025
ElatedMusic8761
Mar 2, 2025
301 Posts
Quote from Riiot :
you won't own this, you only rent this under the mercy of Amazon. It is only $2, but then you will build a large enough library with these sales' where you feel invested in staying in their ebook ecosystem.
$2 is a fair rental price.

Is this book good, even if i thought the movie was boring ?
Mar 4, 2025
36 Posts
Joined May 2014
Mar 4, 2025
thekirkness
Mar 4, 2025
36 Posts
Quote from brad_headley :
769 pages.. whew!!
It's the longest book I've ever finished. So of course, I take every opportunity to tell anyone I can that I read it.
Did I mention that I've read this WHOLE book!!
It is a great read. My only critique is how in depth the early chapters are. It's incredibly well researched and detailed but that can drag the pacing down.
Mar 4, 2025
269 Posts
Joined Oct 2019
Mar 4, 2025
brad_headley
Mar 4, 2025
269 Posts
Quote from thekirkness :
It's the longest book I've ever finished. So of course, I take every opportunity to tell anyone I can that I read it.
Did I mention that I've read this WHOLE book!!
It is a great read. My only critique is how in depth the early chapters are. It's incredibly well researched and detailed but that can drag the pacing down.
Haha congrats.. truly! My attitude towards books has changed a lot, especially nonfiction. You're only going to remember 1% of what you read long-term, maybe. So why not just cut down to that 1% and read an article or listen to a podcast? Then you can read so much more variety and volume of content. 769 pages is a lot ha

Sign up for a Slickdeals account to remove this ad.

Mar 4, 2025
136 Posts
Joined Nov 2010
Mar 4, 2025
uniuni
Mar 4, 2025
136 Posts
Oppenheimer was a political radical, a scientific trailblazer, a ladies man, and a erudite man about town, he was also a sickly thin chain smoking communist sympathizing alcoholic womanizer and serial philanderer who was as honest as the half-life of promethium. The head scientist on a quest to create the most terrible weapon in human history who played his hand at trying to limit the nuclear arms race. To say that he's just complicated, made a faustian bargain, or has internal contradictions doesn't fully describe the complex character of man who glided through life with a graceful agility that was paradoxically made possible because of his inherent instability.

You really don't need to know much about physics to read this book, that's not the most interesting part, it is about the clash of personalities and how in desperate times, clashing personalities are how you get extraordinary things done.

If you enjoy this book, the books "The Making of the Atomic Bomb" by Richard Rhodes is a biography of the device made by Oppenheimer, Fermi, Groves and who's who of 20th century physicists. Rhodes book probably deserves a Nobel Prize let alone the Pulitzer that it received. Personally, I think that his follow up "Dark Sun" about the making of the Hydrogen Bomb in the backdrop of Cold War espionage is an even more enjoyable read.

One of the best biographies that I've read in the last few years. The only better biographies that I've read in the past five or six years are Roberts' "Churchill Walking with Destiny" and the best biography that I've ever read, Stephen Kotkin's Joseph Stalin biography, two volumes with a third coming soon.

Leave a Comment

Unregistered (You)

Popular Deals

View All

Trending Deals

View All