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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
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Binding Type: Paperback - See All Available Formats & Editions
Published: May 2006
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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" L (0.82 lbs) 448 pages
Themes:
- Chronological Period - 1940's
- Geographic Orientation - New Mexico
- Chronological Period - 20th Century
Features: Bibliography, Ikids, Illustrated, Index, Maps, Price on Product, Table of Contents
Review Citations: New York Times 06/18/2006 pg. 24
 
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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.
 
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