J. Robert Oppenheimer and the American century / David C. Cassidy.

Baltimore : John Hopkins University Press, [2009], ©2009.

xviii, 462 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm

Coming to America -- Ethically cultured -- Ethically schooled -- The damning lie -- Summa Cum Laude -- Getting near the center -- A taste for physics -- Coming of age -- Professor of physics -- Cosmic connections -- Depression and war -- The organic necessity -- Dropping the bomb -- Icon of physics -- State scientist -- Good soldiers -- Insecurity hearings -- Exile.

Includes bibliographical references ([425]-439) and index.