The Good Spy (Inbunden)
avKai Bird
ISBN: 9780307889751 - UTGIVEN: 2014-05"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 out[...]
The Good Spy (Häftad)
avKai Bird
ISBN: 9780307889768 - UTGIVEN: 2015-05"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 out[...]
American Prometheus: The Triumph and Tragedy of J. Robert Oppenheimer (Häftad)
avKai Bird, Martin J. Sherwin
ISBN: 9780375726262 - UTGIVEN: 200604A definitive portrait of legendary scientist J. Robert Oppenheimer, the "father" of the atomic bomb, discusses his seminal role in the twentieth-century scientific world, as well as his lesser-known roles as family man, supposed communist, and head of Princeton's Institute for Advanced Studies. Repr[...]
Color of Truth: Mcgeorge Bundy and William Bundy (Häftad)
avKai Bird
ISBN: 9780684856445 - UTGIVEN: 200006"Grey is the color of truth." So observed Mac Bundy in defending America's intervention in Vietnam. Kai Bird brilliantly captures this ambiguity in his revelatory look at Bundy and his brother William, two of the most influential policymakers of the Kennedy and Johnson administrations. It is a portr[...]
The Good Spy: The Life and Death of Robert Ames (Inbunden)
avKai Bird
ISBN: 9781410469182 - UTGIVEN: 2014-05"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 out[...]
American Prometheus (Häftad)
avKai Bird, Martin J. Sherwin
ISBN: 9781843547051 - UTGIVEN: 200901Physicist 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. This biography reveals a brilliant man, profoundly involved with some o[...]
