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Charles Thorpe

Oppenheimer

The Tragic Intellect

448 pages, 18 halftones, 2 line drawings  6 x 9  © 2006

Cloth $37.50

ISBN: 9780226798455   Published January 2007

Paper $25.00

ISBN: 9780226798462   Published November 2008

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Preface
Acknowledgments
1. Introduction: Charisma, Self, and Sociological Biography
2. Struggling for Self
3. Confronting the World
4. King of the Hill
5. Against Time
6. Power and Vocation
7. "I Was an Idiot"
8. The Last Intellectual?
Appendix: Interviews by the Author
Notes
Bibliography
Index

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