| 109 East Palace: Robert Oppenheimer and the Secret City of Los Alamos Contributor(s): Conant, Jennet (Author) |
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ISBN: 0743250087 ISBN-13: 9780743250085 Publisher: Simon & Schuster OUR PRICE: $18.00 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: May 2006 Annotation: From the author of the bestselling "Tuxedo Park" comes the story of those thousands who came to a secret desert, where the world's leading physicists raced to invent the atomic bomb and bring World War II to an end. Winner of the MPBA award for adult fiction. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - History | United States - 20th Century - History | Military - Nuclear Warfare - Science | History |
| Dewey: 623.451 |
| Physical Information: 1.12" H x 5.6" W x 8.38" (0.82 lbs) 448 pages |
| Themes: - Chronological Period - 1940's - Geographic Orientation - New Mexico - Chronological Period - 20th Century |
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| Publisher Description: In 1943, J. Robert Oppenheimer, the brilliant, charismatic head of the Manhattan Project, recruited scientists to live as virtual prisoners of the US government at Los Alamos, a barren mesa thirty-five miles outside Santa Fe, New Mexico. In 1943, J. Robert Oppenheimer, the brilliant, charismatic head of the Manhattan Project, recruited scientists to live as virtual prisoners of the U.S. government at Los Alamos, a barren mesa thirty-five miles outside Santa Fe, New Mexico. Thousands of men, women, and children spent the war years sequestered in this top-secret military facility. They lied to friends and family about where they were going and what they were doing, and then disappeared into the desert. Through the eyes of a young Santa Fe widow who was one of Oppenheimer's first recruits, we see how, for all his flaws, he developed into an inspiring leader and motivated all those involved in the Los Alamos project to make a supreme effort and achieve the unthinkable. |
Contributor Bio(s): Conant, Jennet: - Jennet Conant is the author of Man of the Hour: James B. Conant, Warrior Scientist and the New York Times bestsellers The Irregulars: Roald Dahl and the British Spy Ring in Wartime Washington and Tuxedo Park: A Wall Street Tycoon and the Secret Palace of Science That Changed the Course of World War II. She has written for Vanity Fair, Esquire, GQ, Newsweek, and The New York Times. She lives in New York City and Sag Harbor, New York. |