Monday, March 30, 2009

Books 16: The Ruin of J. Robert Oppenheimer

I wrapped this several days ago and frankly there isn't much worth discussing here.

The book is fascinating and Oppenheimer got screwed, but this book spends much of its time setting up villains and praising Oppenheimer that you'd get the impression that he was a perfect little lamb while Teller was a fame thieving jerk.

You'd be better off watching the PBS Nova special The Trials of Oppenheimer than you would reading this book.

I saw it described as a Hagiography and that is the perfect terminology for this tome.

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