false http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1174318026m/379115.jpg 379115 1 <div>At a time when the Manhattan Project was synonymous with large-scale science, physicist J. Robert Oppenheimer (1904&#8211;67) represented the new sociocultural power of the American intellectual. Catapulted to fame as director of the Los Alamos atomic weapons laboratory, Oppenheimer occupied a key position in the compact between science and the state that developed out of World War II. By tracing the making&#8212;and unmaking&#8212;of Oppenheimer&#8217;s wartime and postwar scientific identity, Charles Thorpe illustrates the struggles over the role of the scientist in relation to nuclear weapons, the state, and culture. <br><br><i>Oppenheimer </i>reveals its subject as an expert for the state with broad cultural and moral authority. But Oppenheimer also played a crucial role in integrating the scientific community and defining the task of the physicist as nuclear weaponeer. The controversy over the hydrogen bomb and Oppenheimer&#8217;s public fall from grace in the 1954 loyalty-security hearings revealed fundamental tensions at the heart of the modern technoscientific state, raising questions about the responsibility scientists should take for the technologies of death they produce. <br><br>A stylish intellectual biography, <i>Oppenheimer</i> maps out changes in the roles of scientists and intellectuals in twentieth-century America, ultimately revealing transformations in Oppenheimer&#8217;s persona that coincided with the changing attitudes toward science in society. <br><br></div></div> 368934 2006 Oppenheimer: The Tragic Intellect total:7|5:2|4:2|3:2|2:1| 7 26 15 2 2 0 false false Mon Sep 01 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Sat May 03 09:56:09 -0700 2008 Tue Dec 09 06:59:42 -0800 2008 Kai Bird and Martin Sherwin blowing the bottom out from underneath the stack of hagiographies with American Prometheus.

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