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Tuxedo Park

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

By: Jennet Conant

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Paperback | 6 May 2003 | Edition Number 1

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The Untold Story of the American Entrepreneur Who Helped Build the Atomic Bomb and Defeat the Nazis.

Legendary financier, philanthropist, and society figure Alfred Lee Loomis gathered the most visionary scientific minds of the twentieth century -- Albert Einstein, Werner Heisenberg, Niels Bohr, Enrico Fermi, and others -- at his state-of-the-art laboratory in Tuxedo Park, New York, in the late 1930s. He established a top-secret defense laboratory at MIT and personally bankrolled pioneering research into new, high-powered radar detection systems that helped defeat the German Air Force and U-boats. With Ernest Lawrence, the Nobel Prize-winning physicist, he pushed Franklin Delano Roosevelt to fund research in nuclear fission, which led to the development of the atomic bomb.

Jennet Conant, the granddaughter of James Bryant Conant, one of the leading scientific advisers of World War II, enjoyed unprecedented access to Loomis' papers, as well as to people intimately involved in his life and work. She pierces through Loomis' obsessive secrecy and illuminates his role in assuring the Allied victory.

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Jonathan Yardley The Washington Post Remarkable...the story of a genuinely extraordinary man [told] uncommonly well.

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Map of Tuxedo Park	p. xii
Preface	p. xv
The Patron	p. 1
Bred in the Bone	p. 16
The Power Broker	p. 37
Palace of Science	p. 55
Cash on the Barrel	p. 80
Restless Energy	p. 108
The Big Machine	p. 133
Echoes of War	p. 154
Precious Cargo	p. 179
The Blitz	p. 209
Minister Without Portfolio	p. 238
Last of the Great Amateurs	p. 251
Epilogue	p. 290
Alfred L. Loomis' Scientific Publications	p. 299
Author's Note on Sources	p. 303
Acknowledgments	p. 311
Index	p. 313
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