109 East Palace, Jennet Conant
109 East Palace, Jennet Conant
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109 East Palace
Robert Oppenheimer and the Secret City of Los Alamos

Author: Jennet Conant

Narrator: Anne Twomey

Abridged: 5 hr 59 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 05/03/2005


Synopsis

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.

About Jennet Conant

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.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Kimberly on April 14, 2024

History lives Jennet Conan has made Los Alamos history come alive again with her fascinating and respectfully emotional rendering of the times and people who greatly facilitated the end of a terrible war. Informative and personal. Highly recommended for everyone.......more

Goodreads review by Mahlon on July 16, 2009

109 East Palace by Jennet Conant offers a fresh look at the story of the Manhattan Project, America's secret effort to build the Atom-bomb which eventually ended WWII. The author decided to tell the story through the eyes of Dorthy Mckibbion, who ran the project's office in Santa Fe, and the wives a......more

Goodreads review by Jeff on December 11, 2016

What a great read. I can’t say enough about the insight Jennet Conant puts into this work. She has done a masterful job weaving the intricacies of the bomb development, political up-heavel and meshing of over inflated egos into a precise, easy to digest, complex subject matter. We all know Oppenheim......more

Goodreads review by Ruby on April 13, 2009

Having lived in Santa Fe and visited Los Alamos on a number of occasions, this book was particularly interesting to me. It gave a close up look at the many individuals who developed the Atomic Bomb, particularly Oppenheimer and his public relations aide, Dorothy. There is quite a picture of how thes......more

Goodreads review by Moonkiszt on October 13, 2024

My introduction to this man who changed the world. A scary topic from start to finish (and it isn't even finished. . .?) and one that even left him wishing for different choices it seems. Amazing what a group of strangers can do when they put their minds to it. I can't stop thinking about 100, 200 yea......more