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American Prometheus by Kai Bird, Martin J. Sherwin
American Prometheus: The Triumph and Tragedy of J. Robert Oppenheimer is a biography of J. Robert Oppenheimer by Kai Bird …
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American Prometheus: The Triumph and Tragedy of J. Robert Oppenheimer is a biography of J. Robert Oppenheimer by Kai Bird …

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In 1929, the world watched in shock as the unstoppable Wall Street bull market went into a freefall, wiping out …

In 1978, Choi Eun-hee, South Korea's most famous actress disappeared on a business trip to Hong Kong. Her ex-husband, South …

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In this novel of World War II, an American police detective trapped while trailing a killer overseas struggles to survive …

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In 1929, the world watched in shock as the unstoppable Wall Street bull market went into a freefall, wiping out …

Tuberculosis has been entwined with humanity for millennia. Once romanticized as a malady of poets, today tuberculosis is a disease …

When AI expert and investigative journalist Karen Hao first began covering OpenAI in 2019, she thought they were the good …

Recounts the rise of Michael Milken, his firm Drexel Burnham Lambert, and the leveraged buyout boom they helped to fuel …

The true story of the late 1980s leveraged buyout (LBO) of American food and tobacco conglomerate RJR Nabisco, at the …

In 2021 cryptocurrency went mainstream. Giant investment funds were buying it; celebrities like Tom Brady endorsed it; and TV ads …