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Author:

Szasz, Ferenc Morton, 1940-

Title:

Larger than life : New Mexico in the twentieth century / Ferenc M. Szasz.

Publisher:

University of New Mexico Press,

Copyright Date:

c2006

Description:

xvii, 298 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.

Subject:

New Mexico--History--20th century.
New Mexico.--Biography.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (p. 242-279) and index.

Contents:

Charles A. and Anne Morrow Lindbergh and the shaping of New Mexican history -- J. Robert Oppenheimer and the state of New Mexico -- Congressman Bill Richardson and the 1984 creation of the Bisti and De-na-zin Wilderness Areas in Northwest New Mexico -- The cultures of modern New Mexico, 1940 to the early twenty-first century -- Cutting the gordian knot : how Leslie R. Groves and Norris Bradbury made the Los Alamos Scientific Laboratory permanent, 1945-48 -- New Mexico's forgotten nuclear tests : projects Gnome (1961) and Gasbuggy (1967) -- The history of atomic photography -- Francis Schlatter : the spiritual healer of the Southwest -- The Tolar, New Mexico, munitions train explosion, November 30, 1944 -- The saga of Chaco Canyon's "threatening rock," ca. 550 B.C.E.-22 January, 1941.

ISBN:

9780826338839
9780826338839 (pbk. : alk. paper)
0826338836 (pbk. : alk. paper)

OCLC:

(OCoLC)61731302

LCCN:

2005027464

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)