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A life in twilight : the final years of J. Robert Oppenheimer / Mark Wolverton.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Wolverton, Mark.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Oppenheimer, J. Robert, 1904-1967--Last years.
- Oppenheimer, J. Robert.
- Oppenheimer, J. Robert, 1904-1967.
- Physicists--United States--Biography.
- Physicists.
- Last years of a person's life.
- United States.
- Genre:
- Biographies.
- Physical Description:
- x, 339 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : St. Martin's Press, 2008.
- Contents:
- Part 1 The Edge of Mystery
- 1 The Scientist and the Reporter 13
- 2 The Sage of Princeton 29
- 3 The Price of Celebrity 43
- 4 The Bleak Face of Unhumanity 55
- Part 2 A Rugged Time
- 5 A Great Open Windy World 71
- 6 The Climate of Suspicion 83
- 7 A Sense of Panic 95
- 8 Rumblings of Redemption 109
- Part 3 A Universal Confusion
- 9 The Answer to Fear 127
- 10 The Otherness of People 141
- 11 A Good Augury 155
- 12 A Kind of Humanity 171
- Part 4 Courage and Hope
- 13 Honor and Respect 189
- 14 Charity and Courage 203
- 15 Darkness and Light 219
- 16 The Public and the Private 233
- 17 Responsibility and Guilt 247
- Part 5 The All-Encompassing Dark
- 18 The Sad Account 263
- 19 Quartet in C-sharp Minor 279
- 20 The Persistence of Dignity 293.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 325-327) and index.
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Edward Potts Cheyney Memorial Fund.
- ISBN:
- 9780312374402
- 0312374402
- OCLC:
- 223882887
- Online:
- Contributor biographical information
- Publisher description
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