| Book Review | The Journal of American History, 94.2

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Book Review

Oppenheimer: The Tragic Intellect. By Charles Thorpe. (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2006. xx, 413 pp. $37.50, ISBN 978–0- 226–79845–5.)

Has any American scientist—has any American, period—received as much scholarly attention in the last few years as J. Robert Oppenheimer? He has been the subject of five major studies: by Gregg Herken (2002), Kai Bird and Martin J. Sherwin (2005), David C. Cassidy (2004), Priscilla McMillan (2005), and Abraham Pais and Robert P. Crease (2006). In addition, Cathryn Carson and David A. Hollinger have recently edited the proceedings of the 2004 Berkeley conference marking the centenary of his birth (2005). So one may wonder whether yet another book on Oppenheimer is needed or can add much to what is already known about him. Charles Thorpe lays any such doubts to rest. His book is magnificently well researched, elegantly written, and analytically profound. It is packed with new and original insights. Oppenheimer: The Tragic Intellect is one of the finest books I have ever read.

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