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Learning to Love the Bomb
by Jeremy Bernstein
United States History, Military History, American History, U.S. History, U.S. GovernmentThe atomic bomb was developed at government laboratories in Los Alamos, New Mexico, by a team of outstanding physicists under the direction of J. Robert Oppenheimer. Upon seeing the results of the first detonation of an atomic device, the test director Kenneth Bainbridge is said to have remarked to Oppenheimer, “Now we are all sons of bitches.” Yet the physicists could scarcely contain their fascination with what they had wrought, as Jeremy Bernstein finds in this report from ground zero.
Harry Truman Outflanks the Southern Barons of Capitol Hill
by Robert Shogan
United States History, Political Science, American History, U.S. History, U.S. GovernmentPresident Harry Truman skirted Congress and boldly used the Justice Department to support the rights of black Americans. How he did it, and his effort’s lasting consequences, are told in this sharply observed account.
The Early Years of a Conspicuous American / Selections from The Education of Henry Adams
by Henry Adams
United States History, American History, U.S. History, U.S. Government, BiographyHenry Adams, whose distinguished family had a tradition of service to the nation, thought himself a comparative failure because his instincts ran toward literature and spiritual adventure. In his autobiographical Education he tried to make sense of his own path in a changing America.
by R. Bruce Craig
United States History, Political Science, American History, U.S. History, U.S. GovernmentAlger Hiss’s turn toward the political left, leading to his association with Whittaker Chambers, is portrayed in Bruce Craig’s incisive account of Hiss’s early years, drawing upon previously untapped sources.