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109 East Palace: Robert Oppenheimer and the Secret City of Los Alamos
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109 East Palace: Robert Oppenheimer and the Secret City of Los Alamos Trade paperback - 2006

by Jennet Conant

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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.

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Simon & Schuster, May 2006. Trade Paperback . Acceptable.
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  • Title 109 East Palace: Robert Oppenheimer and the Secret City of Los Alamos
  • Author Jennet Conant
  • Binding Trade Paperback
  • Edition Reprint
  • Condition Used - Acceptable
  • Pages 448
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Simon & Schuster, Riverside, New Jersey, U.S.A.
  • Date May 2006
  • Illustrated Yes
  • Features Bibliography, Illustrated, Index, Maps, Table of Contents
  • Bookseller's Inventory # 5204
  • ISBN 9780743250085 / 0743250087
  • Weight 0.82 lbs (0.37 kg)
  • Dimensions 8.38 x 5.6 x 1.12 in (21.29 x 14.22 x 2.84 cm)
  • Themes
    • Chronological Period: 1940's
    • Chronological Period: 20th Century
    • Cultural Region: Southwest U.S.
    • Geographic Orientation: New Mexico
  • Library of Congress subjects Manhattan Project (U.S.), Oppenheimer, J. Robert
  • Dewey Decimal Code 623.451

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THERE WAS SOMETHING about the man, that was all there was to it.

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Citations

  • New York Times, 06/18/2006, Page 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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