Rhodes Making Of The Atomic Bomb

Rhodes, Richard. THE MAKING OF THE ATOMIC BOMB 1ST BC. Simon & Schuster, 1986.
First book club edition, first printing with "1" in the numberline. Same quality, format and same jacket art as the first trade edition, both first issues in hardcover are fairly scarce in even more so in near fine condition. Winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Non fiction. Other than a trace of wear and a small thin mark on front DJ panel both book and jacket are in about fine condiiton, free of former owner writing or bookplates. Mylar protected DJ. Richard Rhodes is the author or editor of twenty-two books, including novels, history, journalism, and letters. The Making of the Atomic Bomb won a Pulitzer Prize, a National Book Award, and a National Book Critics Circle Award. Dark Sun, about the development of the hydrogen bomb, was one of three finalists for a Pulitzer Prize in History. An affiliate of Stanford University's Center for International Security and Cooperation, he lectures to college and professional audiences. He lives with his wife near Half Moon Bay, California. ; 8vo; 886 pages. 0671441337.

First Edition; First Printing, Hardcover, Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket.

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Conant, Jennet: TUXEDO PARK : A WALL STREET TYCOON AND THE SECRET PALACE OF SCIENCE THAT CHANGED THE COURSE OF WORLD WAR II, New York Simon & Schuster 2002
ISBN: 0-684-87287-0 Very good Condition

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. Hardcover 9.5 x 6.4 x 1.2 inches

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Rhodes, Richard. John James Audubon: The Making of an American (BIOGRAPHY, ORINTHOLOGY, ART). New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2004.
0375414126, 514 pages. -- Hard cover. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. First edition so stated. Like new/like new. Interior text is clean, tight, and unmarked. Pages are intact and tight to the spine. From a review in "Scientific American" : " 'The sharp cries of gulls wheeling above the East River docks welcomed the handsome young Frenchman to America.' Born in 1785 the illegitimate son of a French planter on Saint Domingue (now Haiti) and raised in France, the handsome young man transformed himself into the consummate American. Rhodes, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of 'The Making of the Atomic Bomb,' traces this journey with insight ('studying birds was how he mastered the world, and himself') and vivid language. In particular, Audubon's wife, Lucy--a beautiful, adventurous Englishwoman whom he met shortly after arriving in America--eme rges as a full, and patient, partner in Audubon's single-minded enterprise to develop a technique that would breathe life back into the birds he drew and to catalogue the birds of North America in a 'collection not only valuable to the scientific class, but pleasing to every person.' The book includes several color reproductions to remind us just how well Audubon succeeded..."
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Richard Rhodes. Dark Sun: The Making of the Hydrogen Bomb. Old Tappan, New Jersey, U.S.A.: Simon & Schuster, 1996
0684824140 Clean, tight, unmarked copy. Reprint of the 1995 hardcover edition. . Tall 8vo (6 1/8" x 9 1/4"). 731 pages. Black glossy pictorial wrappers (trade paperback). With ninety-four black & white illustrations. Chapter notes. Glossary of names. Bibliography. Index. "Here, for the first time, in a brilliant, panoramic portrait by the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of THE MAKING OF THE ATOMIC BOMB, is the definitive, often shocking story of the politics and the science behind the development of the hydrogen bomb and the birth of the Cold War. Based on secret files in the United States and the former Soviet Union, this monumental work of history discloses how and why the United States decided to create the bomb that would dominate world politics for more than forty years." 1996 Pulitzer Prize Finalist in History. Sloan Technology Series..

Trade Paperback, Fine

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