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Carregando... The Girls of Atomic City: The Untold Story of the Women Who Helped Win World War II (edição: 2014)de Denise Kiernan (Autor)
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Registre-se no LibraryThing tpara descobrir se gostará deste livro. Ainda não há conversas na Discussão sobre este livro. Good overall, but I was left feeling there could have been more. Maybe that's a sign of good writing ("I like this so much, I wish there was more"), or of poor writing ("I feel like we've got gaps and are missing some details."). Take your pick. But nonetheless, the topic of the Manhattan Project and of Oak Ridge's role in it is fascinating, and focusing on the women in the city provides a satisfying perspective. [Audiobook note: the reader, Cassandra Campbell, does a very good job. Four stars for her.] I did a fast skim of this book. I toured Oak Ridge a few months ago on a cross country trip, and I visited the museum there. I also heard the author Denise Kiernan, speak at our library here in Kansas City, last year. The book deserves more than a fast skim! It's a fascinating read. Government secrecy. Cultural impacts. Medical impacts. sem resenhas | adicionar uma resenha
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In this book the author traces the story of the unsung World War II workers in Oak Ridge, Tennessee through interviews with dozens of surviving women and other Oak Ridge residents. This is the 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 did not 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 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 did not fully understand at the time, are still being felt today. Não foram encontradas descrições de bibliotecas. |
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Since I’m a Knoxville native, this is local history for me. Oak Ridge has not been a secret in my lifetime. I’ve always been able to go there, either with my family or on school field trips to the children’s museum or the Museum of Science and Energy. I’ve always been curious about its secret history, and this book didn’t disappoint!
One minor quibble. Kiernan includes the story of Ebb Cade, an African American construction worker who was subjected to medical experimentation without his consent. Cade wasn’t one of the “girls” of Atomic City, nor were the doctors who experimented on him, so he doesn’t belong in this book. He deserves his own book, but it seems that it hasn’t yet been written. ( )