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Hardcover, full decorative gray leather. Brand new copy in factory shrink-wrap. 628 pages. A quality Easton Press production with all the refinements that go to make this a truly fine binding: bound in satin ribbon marker, all edges gilt, raised spine, 22kt gold stamping, smyth-sewn binding, silk moire end-papers, acid free archival paper and full genuine leather binding. First edition, limited to 1,225 copies, numbered and signed by the author. Certificate of Authenticity laid in, along with Easton Press Bookplate and Notes. A clear and compelling memoir by arguably the most polarizing physicist to have worked on the Manhattan Project. Teller leaves no stone unturned, from recounting his early life in Hungary, his witnessing of the rise of Nazism and anti-Semitism, his early love of music and mathematics, to his study of quantum physics under Werner Heisenberg, all of which led him to the bomb and his controversial position of freedom through strength. An important memoir by a man who rubbed shoulders with presidents and some of the greatest minds of the 20th century. Brand new copy in pristine condition.