The #1 New York Times bestselling, Pulitzer Prize-winning book American Prometheus was the inspiration for the blockbuster film, Oppenheimer, and is now adapted for young readers.

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, riveting and deeply informative, and now available to a younger audience.

About the Author:

Eric S. Singer is a high school and university educator and historian of the Cold War in the United States. He served on the faculty of the University of Baltimore, where he taught about the Cold War’s impact on ordinary Americans’ lives as well as other social, political, and structural forces that shaped American culture over four centuries. He adapted for young readers Oliver Stone and Peter Kuznick’s The Untold History of the United States and Martin J. Sherwin and Kai Bird’s American Prometheus (as Oppenheimer and the Atomic Bomb). His work has been featured in Hamburg Institute for Social Research’s Angst im Kalten Krieg (Fear in the Cold War), Urban History, The Nation, The Baltimore Sun, San Francisco Chronicle, Teen Vogue, and The Baltimore Banner. He lives outside Washington, DC, with his wife, daughter, and dog, Umji.