The meanings of J. Robert Oppenheimer
By: Lindsey Michael Banco
Series: The new American canon; New American canon
Publisher: University of Iowa Press
Published: 2016
Place of publication: Iowa City
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9781609384197; 9781609384203
Copyright date: 2016
Subjects: Atomic bomb; Manhattan Project (U.S.); Physicists; Biography; History
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Desert saint or destroyer of worlds: Oppenheimer biographies; title: Under the sun: Oppenheimer in history; title: History imagined: Oppenheimer in fiction; title: The ghost and the machine: Oppenheimer in film and television; title: "The bony truth": Oppenheimer in museums; title: In his own worlds: Oppenheimer's writing.