Join us on Sunday, August 13 at 1:30 pm for a film screening of Oppenheimer followed by a conversation with Kai Bird, co-author of the #1 New York Times bestseller and Pulitzer Prize winning-book, “American Prometheus: The Triumph and Tragedy of J. Robert Oppenheimer,” the book that inspired the film. The conversation will be moderated by Mitchell Kaplan and there will be an opportunity to purchase your book and get it signed by the author at the event.
ABOUT THE FILM:Written and directed by Christopher Nolan, Oppenheimer is an IMAX®-shot epic thriller that thrusts audiences into the pulse-pounding paradox of the enigmatic man who must risk destroying the world in order to save it.
Based on the book “American Prometheus: The Triumph and Tragedy of J. Robert Oppenheimer” by Kai Bird and the late Martin J. Sherwin. “A riveting account of one of history’s most essential and paradoxical figures.”—Christopher Nolan
ABOUT THE BOOK:#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.
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