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The Oppenheimer Hearing [Historic Trials Series].
by Major, John
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- See description
- ISBN 10
- 0713412550
- ISBN 13
- 9780713412550
- Seller
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Annandale, New South Wales, Australia
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About This Item
London: B. T. Batsford, 1971. Hardback octavo, dustjacket, good plus condition (in very good dustjacket), black & white photos, top edge tinted & mottled, edges foxed, flap jacket clipped, minor edgewear. 336 pp. British historian John Major describes the nasty McCarthyite campaign against the major American contributor to the atomic bomb. J. Robert Oppenheimer. Oppenheimer was the victim of the dual stupidities of postwar America, extreme anti-Communism and the cult of weapons of mass destruction as the embodiment of US national strength.
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- Bookseller
- Bookhome Sydney (AU)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 13161
- Title
- The Oppenheimer Hearing [Historic Trials Series].
- Author
- Major, John
- Book Condition
- Used
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN 10
- 0713412550
- ISBN 13
- 9780713412550
- Publisher
- B. T. Batsford
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1971
- Keywords
- military, espionage, atomic bombs, government, united states
- Bookseller catalogs
- MILITARY & ESPIONAGE;
Terms of Sale
Bookhome Sydney
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About the Seller
Bookhome Sydney
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Annandale, New South Wales
About Bookhome Sydney
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Glossary
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- Foxed
- Foxing is the age related browning, or brown-yellowish spots, that can occur to book paper over time. When this aging process...
- Octavo
- Another of the terms referring to page or book size, octavo refers to a standard printer's sheet folded four times, producing...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Edges
- The collective of the top, fore and bottom edges of the text block of the book, being that part of the edges of the pages of a...