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Published in USA
May 2005
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Genre: History, Science & Current Affairs
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'......brings to life the colorful, eccentric town of thousands that
sprang up on a New Mexico mesa and achieved the unthinkable. - Publishers Weekly
'Vividly told, the interplay of personalities that would
ultimately transform the world.' - Kirkus Reviews
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Jennet Conant is the bestselling author of four critically acclaimed books about World War II. Conant spent her childhood listening to personal stories from her grandfather, James B. Conant, who was the main administrator of the Manhattan Project and President of Harvard University for 20 years. This connection, along with her training in journalism, led her to the dramatic stories about the invention of RADAR, the development of the atomic bomb, and a British spy ring in Wartime Washington.
Conant's first book and New York Times bestseller, Tuxedo Park: A Wall Street Tycoon and the Secret Palace of Science That Changed the Course of World War II, tells the largely forgotten dramatic story of eccentric Wall Street mogul and
amateur scientist Alfred Loomis, who brought together many ...
"A powerful, provocative debut ... Intelligent, honest, and unsentimental." - Kirkus, starred review
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