Background
Rose, Paul Lawrence was born on February 26, 1944 in Glasgow, Scotland.
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No one better represents the plight and the conduct of German intellectuals under Hitler than Werner Heisenberg, whose task it was to build an atomic bomb for Nazi Germany. The controversy surrounding Heisenberg still rages, because of the nature of his work and the regime for which it was undertaken. What precisely did Heisenberg know about the physics of the atomic bomb? How deep was his loyalty to the German government during the Third Reich? Assuming that he had been able to build a bomb, would he have been willing? These questions, the moral and the scientific, are answered by Paul Lawrence Rose with greater accuracy and breadth of documentation than any other historian has yet achieved. Digging deep into the archival record among formerly secret technical reports, Rose establishes that Heisenberg never overcame certain misconceptions about nuclear fission, and as a result the German leaders never pushed for atomic weapons. In fact, Heisenberg never had to face the moral problem of whether he should design a bomb for the Nazi regime. Only when he and his colleagues were interned in England and heard about Hiroshima did Heisenberg realize that his calculations were wrong. He began at once to construct an image of himself as a "pure" scientist who could have built a bomb but chose to work on reactor design instead. This was fiction, as Rose demonstrates: in reality, Heisenberg blindly supported and justified the cause of German victory. The question of why he did, and why he misrepresented himself afterwards, is answered through Rose's subtle analysis of German mentality and the scientists' problems of delusion and self-delusion. This fascinating study is a profound effort to understand one of the twentieth century's great enigmas.
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(It has long been acknowledged that Richard Wagner was a v...)
It has long been acknowledged that Richard Wagner was a virulent anti-Semite, yet the composer has also been characterized as an idealistic revolutionary. In this fascinating book, Paul Lawrence Rose argues that for Wagner, as for many other Germans, the idea of revolution always contained a racial and antisemitic core. He offers fresh and stimulating interpretations of Wagner's music based on an analysis of their revolutionary and anti-Semitic elements. "An epoch-making study of Wagner's antisemitism-the most important work on the subject now available."-Barry Millington, New Statesman "A pioneering and realistic study."-Conor Cruise O'Brien, Sunday Telegraph
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Rose, Paul Lawrence was born on February 26, 1944 in Glasgow, Scotland.
Bachelor, Master of Arts, Oxford University, England, 1968. Doctor in History, University Paris, 1973.
Visiting lecturer University of California at Los Angeles, 1968-1969. Research associate Toronto University, 1969-1970. Instructor St. John's University, New York, 1970-1971.
Australian Psychological Society research fellow Cambridge (England) University, 1974-1975. From lecturer to senior lecturer to reader/research professor James Cook University, Australia, 1974-1984. Professor history Newcastle University, Australia, 1984-1985, Haifa (Israel) University, 1985-1992, Reuben Hecht professor Zionist history, 1987-1992.
Roberts professor York University of Canberra, 1990-1992. Mitrani professor Jewish studies/European history Pennsylvania State University, since 1992.
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(It has long been acknowledged that Richard Wagner was a v...)
Fellow Royal History Society. Member American History Association, Institute for Advanced Study.
Married Susan Ellen Kaplow, June 3, 1969. Children: Alexander, Olivia, Zoe, Ariel.