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Something incredibly wonderful happens : Frank Oppenheimer and the world he made up
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Something incredibly wonderful happens : Frank Oppenheimer and the world he made up

Author: K C Cole
Publisher: Boston : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, ©2009.
Edition/Format:   Book : Biography : English
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As a young man Frank Oppenheimer followed in his famous brother's footsteps--growing up in a privileged Manhattan household, becoming a physicist, working on the atomic bomb. Tragically, Frank and Robert both had their careers destroyed by the Red Scare, but their paths diverged. While Robert died an almost ruined man, Frank came into his own, emerging from ten years of exile on a Colorado ranch to create not just a  Read more...
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Genre/Form: Biography
Named Person: Frank Oppenheimer
Material Type: Biography
Document Type: Book
All Authors / Contributors: K C Cole
ISBN: 9780151008223 0151008221
OCLC Number: 282966203
Description: xiv, 396 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Contents: Palace of delights --
A little royal family --
The uncle of the atom bomb --
Un-American --
Exile --
An intellectual desert--
and a library of experiments --
A museum dedicated to awareness --
A decent respect for taste --
The man with the gold-rimmed glasses --
The sentimental fruits of science --
The anarch --
The world he made up.
Responsibility: K.C. Cole.
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Cole--a friend and colleague of Frank Oppenheimer's for many years--has drawn from letters, documents, and extensive interviews to write a very personal story of the man whose irrepressible spirit  Read more...

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