American Prometheus : the triumph and tragedy of J. Robert Oppenheimer
Record details
- ISBN: 9780375726262
- ISBN: 0375726268
- ISBN: 0375412026
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Physical Description:
xiii, 721 pages, 32 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 25 cm
print - Edition: First edition.
- Publisher: New York : A.A. Knopf, [2005]
Content descriptions
General Note: | Publisher may vary. |
Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 685-699) and index. |
Formatted Contents Note: | I: "He received every new idea as perfectly beautiful" -- "His separate prison" -- "I am having a pretty bad time" -- "I find the work hard. Thank God, & almost pleasant" -- "I am Oppenheimer" -- "Oppie" -- "The nim nim boys" -- II: "In 1936 my interests began to change" -- "[Frank] clipped it out and sent it in" -- "More and more surely" -- "I'm going to marry a friend of yours, Steve" -- "We were pulling the new deal to the left" -- "The coordinator of rapid rupture" -- "The Chevalier affair" -- III: "He'd become very patriotic" -- "Too much secrecy" -- "Oppenheimer is telling the truth..." -- "Suicide, motive unknown" -- "Would you like to adopt her? '' "Bohr was God, and Oppie was his prophet" -- "The impact of the gadget on civilization" -- "Now we're all sons-of-bitches" -- IV: "Those poor little people" -- "I feel I have blood on my hands" -- "People could destroy New York" -- "Oppie had a rash and is not immune" -- "An intellectual hotel" -- "He couldn't understand why he did it" -- "I am sure that is why she threw things at him" -- "He never let on what his opinion was" -- "Dark words about Oppie" -- "Scientist X" -- "The beast in the jungle" -- V: "It looks pretty bad, doesn't it?" -- "I fear that this whole thing is a piece of idiocy" -- "A manifestation of hysteria" -- "A black mark on the Escutcheon of our country" -- "I can still feel the warm blood on my hands" -- "It was really like a never-never-land" -- "It should have been done the day after trinity" -- "There's only one Robert". |
Awards Note: | National Books Critics Circle Award for Nonfiction, 2007. Pulitzer Prize for Biography, 2006. |
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