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...very productive, and revealing. Especially the comments from Shamita and Laila on the continuing difficulties they and their communities have faced in the aftermath of 9/11—trying to provide services and at the same time to deal with an extraordinary level of government surveillance and suspicion...
...mushroom cloud of suspicion hangs over this segment of Oppenheimer’s life. In 1943 he made the mistake of spending a night with his former lover, the sometimes lesbian Tatlock. Given her Red leanings, that dalliance constituted a clear breach of security. (Half a year later, Tatlock was dead by her own hand, although some still speculate that she was murdered.) Then came truly devastating revelations of the “Chevalier affair.” In winter 1942, Oppenheimer’s friend Haakon Chevalier had approached him on behalf of another Communist about turning over secret...
...very productive, and revealing. Especially the comments from Shamita and Laila on the continuing difficulties they and their communities have faced in the aftermath of 9/11—trying to provide services and at the same time to deal with an extraordinary level of government surveillance and suspicion...
...anyone else uneasy about law-enforcement officers coming into one's home on the mere suspicion that underage drinking is going on? Undeniably, teen drinking in the home should not be condoned by parents. But the puritanical agenda being forced on this country by various special-interest groups has gone far enough...
...currents of American postwar paranoia but also the tangled particulars of the man himself. Even a generous evaluation of his fate would call him complicit in his downfall. Whether through hubris or naivet, 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...