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No single figure embodies Cold War science more than the renowned physicist J. Robert Oppenheimer. Journalists and politicians, writers and artists have told Oppenheimer's story in many different ways since he first gained notoriety in 1945. In Storytelling and Science, David K. Hecht examines why they did so, and what they hoped to achieve through their stories.

Outgrowth of the author's thesis (Ph. D.--University of California, Irvine, 2010) under title: Managing vision, envisioning management: representations of labor and technological systems in Gilded Age America.

For the first time, this book compiles original documents from Science for the People, the most important radical science movement in US history. Between 1969 and 1989, Science for the People mobilized American scientists, teachers, and students to practice a socially and economically just science, rather than one that served militarism and corporate profits.