J. Robert Oppenheimer And the American Century

Name: J. Robert Oppenheimer And the American Century
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ISBN: 9780131479968

ISBN-10: 0131479962

ISBN-13: 9780131479968

Edition: 2005

Authors: David C. Cassidy, J. Robert Oppenheimer

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The unexplored secret of the American Century, the last 100 years of US history, is the rise of American science, specifically physics. At the heart of that story is J. Robert Oppenheimer, leader of the Manhattan Project that built the atomic bomb. He was a man of contradictions: a scientist who discovered black holes and then turned his back on cutting edge research; a gentle liberal humanist responsible for the creation of the first real weapon of mass destruction; a genius who founded 'scientific militarism' and then let it destroy him. His life story embodies the great conflicts of American society, its genius, its weaknesses, and even its essential morality. How did an aesthete man…

Book details

List price: $27.95
Copyright year: 2005
Publisher: Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated
Publication date: 8/20/2004
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 480
Size: 6.50" wide x 9.00" long x 1.50" tall
Weight: 1.782
Language: English

Acknowledgments	p. ix
Introduction	p. x
Coming to America	p. 1
Ethically Cultured	p. 15
Ethically Schooled	p. 33
The Damning Lie	p. 47
Summa Cum Laude	p. 61
Getting Near the Center	p. 79
A Taste for Physics	p. 105
Coming of Age	p. 117
Professor of Physics	p. 133
Cosmic Connections	p. 159
Depression and War	p. 181
The Organic Necessity	p. 211
Dropping the Bomb	p. 237
State Scientist	p. 253
Icon of Physics	p. 267
Good Soldiers	p. 285
Insecurity Hearings	p. 305
Exile	p. 327
Appendix 1	p. 353
Appendix 2	p. 355
Appendix 3	p. 357
Appendix 4	p. 359
Notes	p. 363
Bibliography	p. 425
Index	p. 441
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