Denise Kiernan
Hardcover | Pages: 373 pages Rating: 3.68 | 23696 Users | 3162 Reviews
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| Original Title: | The Girls of Atomic City: The Untold Story of the Women Who Helped Win World War II |
| ISBN: | 1451617526 (ISBN13: 9781451617528) |
| Edition Language: | English |
| Literary Awards: | APSA Woodrow Wilson Foundation Award (2014), Goodreads Choice Award Nominee for History & Biography (2013) |
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The incredible story of the young women of Oak Ridge, Tennessee, who unwittingly played a crucial role in one of the most significant moments in U.S. history.The Tennessee town of Oak Ridge was created from scratch in 1942. One of the Manhattan Project’s secret cities, it didn’t appear on any maps until 1949, and yet at the height of World War II it was using more electricity than New York City and was home to more than 75,000 people, many of them young women recruited from small towns across the South. Their jobs were shrouded in mystery, but they were buoyed by a sense of shared purpose, close friendships—and a surplus of handsome scientists and Army men!
But against this vibrant wartime backdrop, a darker story was unfolding. The penalty for talking about their work—even the most innocuous details—was job loss and eviction. One woman was recruited to spy on her coworkers. They all knew something big was happening at Oak Ridge, but few could piece together the true nature of their work until the bomb "Little Boy" was dropped over Hiroshima, Japan, and the secret was out. The shocking revelation: the residents of Oak Ridge were enriching uranium for the atomic bomb.
Though the young women originally believed they would leave Oak Ridge after the war, many met husbands there, made lifelong friends, and still call the seventy-year-old town home. The reverberations from their work there—work they didn’t fully understand at the time—are still being felt today. In The Girls of Atomic City, Denise Kiernan traces the astonishing story of these unsung WWII workers through interviews with dozens of surviving women and other Oak Ridge residents. Like The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks, this is history and science made fresh and vibrant—a beautifully told, deeply researched story that unfolds in a suspenseful and exciting way.
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| Title | : | The Girls of Atomic City: The Untold Story of the Women Who Helped Win World War II |
| Author | : | Denise Kiernan |
| Book Format | : | Hardcover |
| Book Edition | : | Special Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 373 pages |
| Published | : | March 5th 2013 by Touchstone/Simon & Schuster |
| Categories | : | Nonfiction. History. War. World War II. Science. Historical. North American Hi.... American History |
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Ratings: 3.68 From 23696 Users | 3162 ReviewsArticle Appertaining To Books The Girls of Atomic City: The Untold Story of the Women Who Helped Win World War II
A very interesting book on the building and running of Oak Ridge, Tennessee which developed the fuel for the atomic bomb during World War II. Located in an isolated section of East Tennessee, 25 miles from Knoxville, it was built in a hurry and in as much secrecy as possible. Young men and women from all around the country and especially the surrounding area were recruited, given no indication of where they would be going or what they would be doing or for how long but promised good pay and aI made it to page 111 in chapter 5 and I'm calling it quits. The construction of this book is lousy. It jumps all over the place, there are too many characters to remember, none of them are memorable, the author relates WAY too much information about the specifics of making the bomb and only provides mundane snippets of the lives of the "girls" and I AM BORED TO TEARS!Read with SBC book club November 2016 (or not, as the case may be)
My father was a pathologist, with an interest in oncology. He was a pioneer in the work towards a cure for leukemia, and his quest took him on many unique journeys. He had this idea that you could inject an isotope into an infected guinea pig, and be able to read the path of the disease in the animal's body. He worked for the National Institutes of Health, and it was his resources there that allowed him to drive the family station wagon out to this place in Tennessee, and pick up a substance to
I liked this book a lot, so four stars. It is interesting, well told and easy to follow. Although filled with facts it is never dry or boring. The scientific details are well explained so any lay person can understand. It is about the creation of Oak Ridge, Tennessee - a city created to produce the first atomic bombs' fuel source. This book not only follows the historical facts surrounding the creation of this fuel source but also the creation of the city where the people employed to do the
Overall a pretty good, informative, and entertaining book about a part of American history that is pretty much all but forgotten... and unknown.The book is more a series of short stories from different women that are somewhat interwoven together over their tenure in Oak Ridge, Tennessee. Like a lot of short stories, you fail to really connect with any of the characters other than just finding out random bits of information that compose their daily lives over their interesting and puzzling pasts.
This is the story of ordinary people in extraordinary times, skillfully written to make the story unfold before the reader much like a novel. Its the story of life in a secret city with a population of nearly 80,000, built within a year (1942-1943), on what had been farm land, and very few of the inhabitants and workers had any knowledge of the purpose of the place. And as the title indicates, many of those living there were women, and this book features their life and experiences.This is the
I made myself finish this wretched book. There are some things through the end that were interesting, but the author took a fascinating story and made it impossible for me to get into. The editor did this author a grave disservice by giving this version of the book the green light. Horribly difficult to follow and I didn't care about anybody because I couldn't keep track of who was who. Wretched. Wretched book. Skip it. I don't know how this book has become bad big as it has. I can't say enough
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