{"product_id":"book-9768","title":"The Man Who Knew Too Much","description":"\u003cp\u003eA \"skillful, literate\" (\u003ci\u003eNew York Times Book Review\u003c\/i\u003e) biography of the persecuted genius who helped create the modern computer\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTo solve one of the great mathematical problems of his day, Alan Turing proposed an imaginary computer. Then, attempting to break a Nazi code during World War II, he successfully designed and built one, thus ensuring the Allied victory. Turing became a champion of artificial intelligence, but his work was cut short. As an openly gay man at a time when homosexuality was illegal in England, he was convicted and forced to undergo a humiliating \"treatment\" that may have led to his suicide.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWith a novelist's sensitivity, David Leavitt portrays Turing in all his humanity-his eccentricities, his brilliance, his fatal candor-and elegantly explains his work and its implications.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Blackstone Publishing","offers":[{"title":"Audiobook","offer_id":49302379725104,"sku":"BD9768","price":22.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"Audio CD","offer_id":49302379757872,"sku":"ZE9768","price":39.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"Audio MP3-CD [ZM]","offer_id":49302379954480,"sku":"ZM9768","price":29.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0879\/2784\/9264\/files\/9768-Square-cover.jpg?v=1775739409","url":"https:\/\/downpour.com\/products\/book-9768","provider":"Downpour","version":"1.0","type":"link"}