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...fate would call him complicit in his downfall. Whether through hubris or naiveté, he refused to take seriously that his years of association with communists would open him to suspicion. American Prometheus tells his story at length and exceedingly well. The authors, Kai Bird and Martin J. Sherwin, employ a mix of thoroughness and judgment that makes this an essential book...
...Bird and Sherwin are concerned chiefly with the political and personal dimensions of Oppenheimer's case. For a broader picture of Los Alamos as a unique human settlement, part Western boom town, part scientific prison camp, turn to 109 East Palace by Jennet Conant. The Los Alamos in her book is largely the one General Leslie Groves, military chief of the Manhattan Project, was describing when he directed Oppenheimer, saying: "Here at great expense the government has assembled the world's largest collection of crackpots. Take good care of them." Conant sees the place partly through the eyes of Dorothy...
...SHERWIN NULAND, clinical professor of surgery at Yale University and author...
...disparage her later flirtation with spiritualistic thinking?is to miss the point of her life?s work. With a single book and a vigorous campaign of proselytizing, this remarkable woman gave permission to an entire generation and its successors to speak openly about our greatest fear. ?Dr. Sherwin Nuland, clinical professor of surgery at Yale University and author...
...wise to avoid hospitals during the holiday season, when staffing is routinely skimpy. "The worst time is between mid-December and the first week in January," says Dr. Sherwin Nuland, clinical professor of surgery at Yale University. "That season's every bit as bad as mid-June to mid-July," when a new group of residents takes over...