In the Matter of J. Robert Oppenheimer: A Play - Kipphardt, Heinar

Clean, tight, unmarked; light wear to upper edge of dust jacket; small mark inside front cover; number written on back facing end paper; otherwise very minimal wear; J. Robert Oppenheimer earned the title of "the father of the atomic bomb" from the role he played as Director of the Scientific Laboratory at Los Alamos. Kipphardt's play, which conveys the tension and conflict of that secret hearing, is a play for the theatre, not an assemblage of documentary material. He uses the facts taken from the published transcript to present some fundamental issues which face the world today - the conflict between the responsibility of the individual (above all the nuclear physicist) to his country and to humanity as a whole, the right of the patriot to express views at odds with those of his government without his loyalty being called into question.
Very Good
Soft cover
Hill and Wang
1984
New York, NY