Tuxedo Park - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Tuxedo Park write by Jennet Conant. This book was released on 2003. Tuxedo Park available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Wall Street legend Alfred Lee Loomis, who once owned Hilton Head Island, was devoted to his hobby of science experiments in his mansion. During World War II, Loomis played a key role in the development of radar and the atomic bomb.
Murder in Tuxedo Park
Murder in Tuxedo Park - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Murder in Tuxedo Park write by William E. Lemanski. This book was released on 2015-11-28. Murder in Tuxedo Park available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The wealthy, gated community of Tuxedo Park, in upstate New York, has been home to many of America's financial titans and social luminaries for over one hundred years. However, during the later nineteenth century, this staid, secluded enclave became the stalking-ground for one of America's most heinous, early serial killers. The murder and mayhem continued unabated until an eccentric and brilliant young scientist and his alluring new acquaintance began their pursuit.
109 East Palace
109 East Palace - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook 109 East Palace write by Jennet Conant. This book was released on 2007-11-01. 109 East Palace available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. From the bestselling author of Tuxedo Park, the extraordinary story of the thousands of people who were sequestered in a military facility in the desert for twenty-seven intense months under J. Robert Oppenheimer where the world's best scientists raced to invent 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.
Brain-waves and Death
Brain-waves and Death - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Brain-waves and Death write by Willard Rich. This book was released on 1940. Brain-waves and Death available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
Man of the Hour
Man of the Hour - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Man of the Hour write by Jennet Conant. This book was released on 2017-09-19. Man of the Hour available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. "James B. Conant was a towering figure who stood at the center of the great crises and challenges of the twentieth century. He set an extraordinary example of public service without ever holding elected office. A member of the greatest generation, there was probably no one who made a larger mark in more areas of American life, shaping national policy as a scientist, nuclear pioneer, Cold War statesman, diplomat, and educational reformer for nearly fifty years. As a brilliant young chemist, he supervised the production of poison gas in WWI. As the Nazi threat loomed, he boldly led the interventionist cause in WWII and was tapped by President Franklin D. Roosevelt to be one of the scientific chiefs at the helm of the Manhattan Project, personally overseeing the massive secret effort to develop the atomic bomb and making the fateful recommendation to drop it on Hiroshima to bring the war to a quick and decisive end. He went on to become one of America's first cold warriors, led the bitter fight to reject the hydrogen bomb, and campaigned tirelessly for the international control of atomic weapons. He continued to exert his influence as President Eisenhower's high commissioner, and then ambassador, to Germany, helping to secure the country's future and strengthen Europe's defenses against Soviet aggression. He achieved national prominence in his twenty-year reign as president of Harvard--the very symbol of the intellectual and social elite--and yet was a champion of meritocracy and open admissions, helping to create the SAT and devoting his later life to improving public schools as the "engine of democracy." Even as he worked to safeguard the American way of life, he feared the nuclear force he helped harness was so dangerous it could lead to the extinction of mankind. In this intimate account of his extraordinary life, his granddaughter, ... bestselling author Jennet Conant, draws on hundreds of documents, diaries, and letters to reveal the agonizing decisions he was forced to make while serving his country in three wars--two hot, and one cold--and the burden of guilt he bore for his actions and for always putting duty before everything else. For all his brilliance, he never understood the depression that ravaged his family but struggled to keep his wife from succumbing, in the process alienating both his sons. With Man of the Hour, Jennet Conant paints a rich, nuanced portrait of a great American leader and visionary, the last of a vanishing breed."--Jacket.
