America's children

Author / Creator

Thackara, James, 1944-

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"America's Children is James Thackara's first novel, and it tells the story of J. Robert Oppenheimer - in moral terms our Faust, our Prometheus - whose life is the perfect symbol of man's enlighten...

"America's Children is James Thackara's first novel, and it tells the story of J. Robert Oppenheimer - in moral terms our Faust, our Prometheus - whose life is the perfect symbol of man's enlightened conquest of nature, his crisis of guilt, and his struggle for responsibility." "It is a multi-layered story of Christian and Marxist values; of love of family and land; of invisible high-energy particles and Pentagon technocrats; of thrilling scientific discovery and the unspeakable reality of Hiroshima. The great classical myths of man's mastery over nature suffuse America's Children with a seductive, deathly glow."--BOOK JACKET.

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