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      America's Children

      by James Thackara
      Published
      Apr 2002
      Main Genre
      Espionage / Spies / CIA Espionage
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      330
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      The Book of Kings established James Thackara as a novelist of extraordinary range and vision, and became one of the publishing sensations of recent years. America's Children is James Thackara's first novel, written in 1984 and first published in the Unite

      It tells the story of J. Robert Oppenheimer, whose life is the perfect symbol of man's enlightened conquest of nature, his crisis of guilt, and his struggle for responsibility.

      America's Children 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. A novel for our age, America's Children is a sublime and truly American story of the theft of atomic fire, the agonies of political and moral conscience, and the future of our planet in a nuclear world.

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      Suspense

      Subgenres

      Espionage / Spies / CIA

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      First Edition Apr 2002 Overlook Press ISBN13 9781585672479 ISBN10 1585672475
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      Oct 1984 Chatto & Windus ISBN13 9780701127800 ISBN10 0701127805
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      Mar 2001 Overlook Press ISBN13 9781585671113 ISBN10 1585671118
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