109 East Palace: Robert Oppenheimer and the Secret City of Los Alamos

From the bestselling author of Tuxedo Park, the story of the three-thousand people who lived together in...
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Author: Jennet Conant
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109 East Palace: Robert Oppenheimer and the Secret City of Los Alamos by Conant, Jennet

109 East Palace: Robert Oppenheimer and the Secret City of Los Alamos

CHF 25.95

109 East Palace: Robert Oppenheimer and the Secret City of Los Alamos

CHF 25.95
Author: Jennet Conant
Format: Paperback
Language: English
From the bestselling author of Tuxedo Park, the story of the three-thousand people who lived together in near confinement for twenty-seven intense months under J. Robert Oppenheimer and the world's best scientists to produce the atomic bomb and win World War II.

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.

Author: Jennet Conant
Publisher: Simon & Schuster
Published: 05/08/2006
Pages: 448
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.82lbs
Size: 8.38h x 5.60w x 1.12d
ISBN: 9780743250085


Review Citation(s):
New York Times 06/18/2006 pg. 24

About the Author
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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