Description:
Gregg Herken received a MacArthur Award for this book
about the three scientists most essential to the development of the
Manhattan Project. Herken researched it with a decade of interviews
and sleuthing into American and Russian archives. The three men at the
center of Herken's story shared genius but little else. Anti-Communist
Edward Teller seemed destined to be the foil of Robert Oppenheimer,
a left-leaning New York idealist. South Dakota-native Ernest O. Lawrence
charted his own course. The misunderstanding and strife between these
men, personal and ideological, is evident as Herken weaves his Cold
War tale of politics and betrayal.
Our panel:
Pat Barker
Nancy Pearl
Jennifer Baumer
Jimmy Lerner
Links
for this book:
The
Conservative Monitor
BookPage
Also
by this author:
The
Winning Weapon, Princeton University Press, November 1990
Cardinal
Choice, Stanford University Press, June 2000
Counsels
of War, Alfred A Knopf, March 1985
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