“The definitive biography. . . . Oppenheimer’s life doesn’t influence us. It haunts us.” ？Newsweek “A masterful account of Oppenheimer’s rise and fall, set in the context of the turbulent decades of America’s own transformation. It is a tour de force.” ？Los Angeles Times Book Review “A work of voluminous scholarship and lucid insight, unifying its multifaceted portrait with a keen grasp of Oppenheimer’s essential nature. . . . It succeeds in deeply fathoming his most damaging, self-contradictory behavior.” ？The New York Times “There have been numerous books about Oppenheimer but they can't touch this extraordinary book's impressive breadth and scope.” ？The Miami Herald “The first biography to give full due to Oppenheimer’s extraordinary complexity . . . Stands as an Everest among the mountains of books on the bomb project and Oppenheimer, and is an achievement not likely to be surpassed or equaled.”？The Boston Globe

Prefacep. ix Prologuep. 3 "He Received Every New Idea as Perfectly Beautiful"p. 9 "His Separate Prison"p. 29 "I Am Having a Pretty Bad Time"p. 41 "I Find the Work Hard, Thank God, & Almost Pleasant"p. 56 "I Am Oppenheimer"p. 68 "Oppie"p. 80 "The Nim Nim Boys"p. 94 "In 1936 My Interests Began to Change"p. 111 "[Frank] Clipped It Out and Sent It In"p. 128 "More and More Surely"p. 143 "I'm Going to Marry a Friend of Yours, Steve"p. 153 "We Were Pulling the New Deal to the Left"p. 166 "The Coordinator of Rapid Rupture"p. 179 "The Chevalier Affair"p. 195 "He'd Become Very Patriotic"p. 205 "Too Much Secrecy"p. 223 "Oppenheimer Is Telling the Truth ..."p. 236 "Suicide, Motive Unknown"p. 249 "Would You Like to Adopt Her?"p. 255 "Bohr Was God, and Oppie Was His Prophet"p. 268 "The Impact of the Gadget on Civilization"p. 277 "Now We're All Sons-of-Bitches"p. 290 "Those Poor Little People"p. 313 "I Feel I Have Blood on My Hands"p. 323 "People Could Destroy New York"p. 336 "Oppie Had a Rash and Is Now Immune"p. 351 "An Intellectual Hotel"p. 369 "He Couldn't Understand Why He Did It"p. 391 "I Am Sure That Is Why She Threw Things at Him"p. 406 "He Never Let On What His Opinion Was"p. 416 "Dark Words About Oppie"p. 431 "Scientist X"p. 454 "The Beast in the Jungle"p. 462 "It Looks Pretty Bad, Doesn't It?"p. 487 "I Fear That This Whole Thing Is a Piece of Idiocy"p. 498 "A Manifestation of Hysteria"p. 523 "A Black Mark on the Escutcheon of Our Country"p. 538 "I Can Still Feel the Warm Blood on My Hands"p. 551 "It Was Really Like a Never-Never-Land"p. 566 "It Should Have Been Done the Day After Trinity"p. 574 Epilogue: "There's Only One Robert"p. 589 Author's Note and Acknowledgmentsp. 593 Notesp. 601 Bibliographyp. 685 Indexp. 700 Table of Contents provided by Ingram. All Rights Reserved.