Vintage
9780375726262
Kai Bird and Martin J. Sherwin’s richly documented biography focuses on Oppenheimer’s across-the-board brilliance, his magnetic (but often caustic) personality and the shifting political milieus that led to his elevation and downfall.
It is fitting that an excellent study of Robert Oppenheimer, "the father of the atomic bomb," would emerge at a time when American politicians are butting heads with scientists over such subjects as global warming, stem-cell research and that golden oldie of discord, evolution. Although government officials were alarmed by Oppenheimer's left-leaning politics even as…
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