Oppenheimer: The Tragic Intellect by Charles Thorpe - 2006

Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press, 2006 University of Chicago Press, Chicago, IL. 2006. Hardcover. First Edition. Book is tight, square, and unmarked. Book Condition: New in publisher's vinyl wrapping. DJ: New in publisher's vinyl wrapping. Black boards and spine with bright gilt lettering on the spine. 384 pp 8vo. At a time when the Manhattan Project was synonymous with large-scale science, physicist J Robert Oppenheimer represented the new sociocultural power of the American intellectual. This title traces the making - and unmaking - of Oppenheimer's wartime and postwar scientific identity. The athor provides new perspectives on Oppenheimer's evolution as a scientific intellectual and cultural icon, as well as new insights into the changing constellation of science, state power, and the moral responsibility of the scientist of which Oppenheimer was both a driving force and a tragic victim. A clean pristine copy.