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John Oppenheimer was one of the most divisive and amazing of males. As head of the Los Alamos Lab, he oversaw the successful work to defeat the Nazis in the competition to produce the very first atomic bomb—a development that was to possess endless implications for humanity and that created Oppenheimer the “Father of the Atomic Bomb.” But with his steps prior to that fantastic accomplishment, he also established herself on a dangerous collision course with Senator Joseph McCarthy and his witch hunters. In Robert Oppenheimer: A Life Within the Middle, Ray Monk, writer of peerless biographies of Ludwig Wittgenstein and Bertrand Russell, moves further than any previous biographer in the mission to resolve the enigma of his complicated character and Oppenheimer’s motives.      The child of German-Jewish immigrants, Oppenheimer was a guy of extraordinary rational characteristics, powered by an aspiration to conquer his position being an outsider and enter one's heart of cultural and political existence.