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

  by Jennet Conant

  ISBN 0743250087 (0-7432-5008-7)
  Softcover, Simon & Schuster

  
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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 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. [via]

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  • 109 East Palace : Robert Oppenheimer and the Secret City of Los Alamos: ISBN 0743250079 (0-7432-5007-9)
    Hardcover, Simon & Schuster
  • 109 East Palace: Robert Oppenheimer And the Secret City of Los Alamos: ISBN 0743250087 (0-7432-5008-7)
    Softcover, Simon & Schuster
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  House on R Street: The Baker Street Spies in Wartime Washington
  

  by Jennet Conant

  ISBN 0743294580 (0-7432-9458-0)
  Hardcover, Simon & Schuster

  
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  Tuxedo Park: A Wall Street Tycoon and the Secret Palace of Science That Changed the Course of World War II
  

  by Jennet Conant

  ISBN 0684872889 (0-684-87288-9)
  Softcover, Simon & Schuster

  
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  This must have been an extremely difficult book to write. Its subject, Alfred Loomis, never gave interviews during his lifetime and destroyed all his papers before his death. "Few men of Loomis' prominence and achievement have gone to greater lengths to foil history," writes author Jennet Conant. Had he not done these things, his name would be better known--and this probably wouldn't be the first biography about him. So who was Alfred Loomis? "He was too complex to categorize--financier, philanthropist, society figure, physicist, inventor, amateur, dilettante--a contradiction in terms," writes Conant. Loomis established a private laboratory in New York and hired scientists whose work in the 1930s wound up making possible both the radar and the atomic bomb. These developments were essential to Allied victory in the Second World War. Conant is perhaps the only person who could have pierced Loomis's obsessive secrecy and written this book; she grew up with Loomis's children and other members of his family. Her grandfather, Harvard president James Bryant Conant, was one of Loomis's scientists. Tuxedo Park is an important book about the development of military technology in the United States; admirers of The Making of the Atomic Bomb by Richard Rhodes and similar titles won't want to miss it. --John Miller [via]

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  • Tuxedo Park : A Wall Street Tycoon and the Secret Palace of Science That Changed the Course of World War II: ISBN 0684872870 (0-684-87287-0)
    Hardcover, Simon & Schuster
  • Tuxedo Park: A Wall Street Tycoon and the Secret Palace of Science That Changed the Course of World War II: ISBN 0786248149 (0-7862-4814-9)
    Hardcover, Thorndike Pr
  • Tuxedo Park: A Wall Street Tycoon and the Secret Palace of Science That Changed the Course of World War II: ISBN 0684872889 (0-684-87288-9)
    Softcover, Simon & Schuster