Tickling the Dragon
by Ruth Brandon
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Zsygmond von Fischer was one of a brilliant generation of scientists and intellectuals who went to America to work on the atom bomb. Then, in 1945 he changed sides, moved to England and led the anti-nuclear movement. His niece, Miriam, undertakes his biography but runs into serious difficulties.Tags
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For Miriam Oliver in Ruth Brandon's Tickling the dragon the attraction of writing the biography of the famous scientist who was her first lover and the father of her unacknowledged child is, `In a word, power'. Having found through her researches that `his private life was a mess, his public persona was founded upon a whole series of lies', she exults, `now I've got him in my power, pinned down like a butterfly on a board. I can make him or break him'.
An unhappy mixture of fiction and serious scientific history.
An unhappy mixture of fiction and serious scientific history.
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- When I die, I want to be scattered.
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- `His private life was a mess, his public persona was founded upon a whole series of lies, ... now I've got him in my power, pinned down like a butterfly on a board. I can make him or break him.'
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