Atomic Love Story The Extraordinary Women in Robert Oppenheimer's Life

Name: Atomic Love Story The Extraordinary Women in Robert Oppenheimer's Life
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ISBN: 9781618580191

ISBN-10: 1618580191

ISBN-13: 9781618580191

Edition: 2013

Authors: Shirley Streshinsky, Patricia Klaus

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Set against a dramatic backdrop of war, spies, and nuclear bombs, An Atomic Love Story unveils a vivid new view of a tumultuous era and one of its most important figures. In the early decades of the 20th century, three highly unconventional women found their way to the West Coast, where each was destined to collide with the young Oppenheimer, the enigmatic physicist whose work in creating the atomic bomb would forever impact modern history. His first and most intense love was for Jean Tatlock, though he married the tempestuous “Kitty” Harrison and had a scandalous affair with the brilliant Ruth Sherman Tolman, ten years his senior and the wife of another celebrated physicist closely…

Book details

List price: $27.95
Copyright year: 2013
Publisher: Turner Publishing Company
Publication date: 9/17/2013
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 400
Size: 6.34" wide x 9.23" long x 1.31" tall
Weight: 1.342
Language: English



Cast of Characters


What Is It About Robert?


Prologue



Bloodlines


Chapters 1-2



The Exuberant Years


Chapters 3-8



Forebodings


Chapters 9-12



Love and War


Chapters 13-16



Los Alamos and Washington, D.C.


Chapters 17-20



The Atomic Bomb


Chapters 21-23



Repercussions


Chapters 24-27



In the Matter of J. Robert Oppenheimer and Aftermath


Chapters 28-29



Martyrdom Rejected and A Final Voyage


Chapters 30-31


Outside the Timeline


Acknowledgments


Notes


Bibliography


Photo Credits


Index