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Winona's Search for Sanity.(Winona Ryder)(Brief Article): An article from: New York Times Upfront
Jennet Conant

Scholastic, Inc., 1999

This digital document is an article from New York Times Upfront, published by Scholastic, Inc. on December 13, 1999. The length of the article is 817 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser. Citation Details Title: Winona's Search for Sanity.(Winona ...

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

24 reviews
Jennet Conant

Simon & Schuster, 2006

109 East Palace
An excellelnt accout of one of the most important projects of the last century. Since reading it, I visited Los Alamos and also Trinity Site. An inspiring piece of history.

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

Diane Pub Co, 2002

In the fall of 1940, a small team of Brit. scientists on orders from Winston Churchill unveiled their most valuable military secret in a clandestine meeting with Amer. nuclear physicists at the Tuxedo Park mansion of a mysterious Wall Street tycoon, Alfred Lee Loomis. He had a deluxe private lab hidden in a massive stone castle. This vol. describes Loomis' phenomenal rise to become a Wall Street legend of the 1920s. At the height of his ...

The Irregulars: Roald Dahl and the British Spy Ring in Wartime Washington

13 reviews
Jennet Conant

Simon & Schuster, 2008

No Dagger, But Lots of Cloak
Fans of _James and the Giant Peach_ and _Charlie and the Chocolate Factory_ may be surprised to learn that their author was a British spy. Roald Dahl's espionage career was brief, running from 1942 to 1945. Also, he spied on an ally (the USA) rather than an enemy. Nevertheless, in between his short stint as an RAF pilot and his longer one as a professional fiction writer, Dahl did indeed ...

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

43 reviews
Jennet Conant

Simon & Schuster, 2003

Have we lost the spark?
Alfred Loomis was a bona fide "Wall Street tycoon" who made his fortune in the 1920s by helping to organize the financing for the electrification of America and had the foresight to sell out before the stock market crash in 1929. Thereafter, he became an amateur scientist who cultivated the best and the brightest in the scientific world and maintained a laboratory complex in an enclave of the ...