Everyone is talking about Oppenheimer, but we want to talk about the extraordinary women in his life! Read on for more!
An Atomic Love Story
11 May 2023…Just weeks before the July 21 opening of Christopher Nolan’s much-anticipated film, Oppenheimer, Turner Book Publishing has released a revised paperback edition of An Atomic Love Story: The Extraordinary Women In Robert Opppenheimer’s Life. While Emily Blunt (Kitty) and Florence Pugh (Jean) briefly appear in the movie trailer, the real women they portray are thoroughly fleshed out in the book by authors Shirley Streshinsky and Patricia Klaus.
Set against a dramatic backdrop of war, spies, and nuclear bombs, An Atomic Love Story unveils a vivid new view of a tumultuous era and one of its most important figures. In the early decades of the 20th century, three highly ambitious women found their way to the West Coast, where each was destined to collide with the young Oppenheimer, the enigmatic physicist whose work in creating the atomic bomb would forever impact modern history. His first and most intense love was for Jean Tatlock, though he married the tempestuous Kitty Harrison—both were members of the Communist Party—and was rumored to have had a scandalous affair with the brilliant Ruth Sherman Tolman, ten years his senior and the wife of another celebrated physicist. Each was connected through a relationship to Oppenheimer Their experiences reflect important changes in the lives of American women in the 20th century: the conflict between career and marriage; the need for a woman to define herself independently; experimentation with sexuality; and the growth of career opportunities.
Beautifully written and superbly researched through a rich collection of firsthand accounts, this intimate portrait shares the tragedies, betrayals, and romances of an alluring man and three bold women, revealing how they pushed to the very forefront of social and cultural changes in a fascinating, volatile era.
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About the Authors
Shirley Streshinsky is a critically acclaimed author of three works of nonfiction and four historical novels. As a journalist and travel essayist, she has written extensively for a wide range of national magazines such as Glamour, Preservation, American Heritage, The American Scholar, and Condé Nast Traveler. She is the recipient of the Society of Magazine Writers’ Award for Excellence and the National Council for the Advancement of Education Writing award, and was cited by The Educational Press Association of America for “superlative achievement in features.” Her travel essays have been a feature on National Public Radio. She was married to the late photojournalist Ted Streshinsky and lives in Kensington (Berkeley), California.
Patricia Klaus is an independent scholar who attended the University of California at Santa Barbara, and then Stanford University where she earned a Ph.D. in Modern British History. She taught twentieth-century British history at Yale University, was a visiting lecturer at the University of Virginia and Stanford, and has written a number of historical articles. Her particular interests are women in nineteenth and twentieth century England as well as the study of war and literature, which made working on a book about the remarkable women of the Atomic Age especially appealing.
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Kitty Oppenheimer Ruth Tolman Jean Tatlock
“When I came to San Francisco in about 1960, I experienced Oppenheimer speaking on the U.C. Berkeley campus. I suppose there were some physics students there who understood what he was talking about. I didn’t, but it didn’t matter. He had me; I was in for the duration. Which would turn out to be something like 50 years,” Streshinsky remembered. After partnering with Klaus to research and write, “It took us a while to settle on approaching the biography of Robert Oppenheimer through the three women who loved him, and who he, in turn, loved back, for all of his life.” Adds Klaus, “Tracing the emotional life of a person is like being a private investigator in a messy divorce case; you want to understand motivations, actions, loves, hates, insecurities, passions of all the parties — all the things that caused them to behave as they did. Clues led to the young passionate Jean, to Ruth’s deep friendships with both men and women, to the many Nazi family ties of Kitty.”
The revised paperback edition is now available to readers via Amazon, online retailers, and in bookstores across the United States.
“A deft blend of politics, passion and historical upheaval, An Atomic Love Story is a fresh look
at one of the most written-about scientists of the 20th century and the female trinity central
to his life and work.” —San Jose Mercury News
“Through diligent research, brilliant insights, and clear, incisive writing,
Streshinsky and Klaus have deepened our understanding of Robert Oppenheimer’s emotional life and loves.” —Martin J. Sherwin, co-author of the 2006 Pulitzer Prize-winning American Prometheus: The Triumph and Tragedy of J. Robert Oppenheimer
“An Atomic Love Story is a story of many loves. A whole new range of Robert Oppenheimer’s life emerges, a deeper and richer view of one of the pivotal figures of the 20th century.” —Richard Rhodes, Pulitzer Prize–winning author of The Making of the Atomic Bomb
About the Book
Title: An Atomic Love Story: The Extraordinary Women in Robert Oppenheimer’s Life
Author: Shirley Streshinsky and Patricia Klaus
Published by: Turner Publishing Company
Pub Date: all formats available now
Genres: BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Historical
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Science & Technology
PSYCHOLOGY / General
380 pages
ISBN: Paperback: 9798887980058. Hardcover: 978-1618580191. Epub: 9781618580788
Available now on Amazon, Bookshop, Target, Barnes and Noble
For Media
For more information and interviews with the authors, please contact Deborah on db@@deborahbrosseau.com. Review copies available by request.
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this one sounds interesting! Xo
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