American Prometheus

I started reading this book because I did not know much about the creation of the atomic bomb or anything about Robert Oppenheimer. While it is interesting to learn about Oppenheimer and the bomb, what is most interesting for me is the history of the unchecked power of the early FBI, political innuendo, and the scare tactics of the anti-communist 1940s and 1950s.

Overall this was a interesting book. I listened to it (as I like to do with many long biographies). But the sound quality was not great. The volume kept changing and it would be a bit muffled and then go very clear, and then back muffled again.

A longer review is on my blog at http://bookwi.se/american-prometheus-the-triumph-and-tragedy-of-j-robert-oppenheimer/