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

Author/creator Szasz, Ferenc Morton
Format Book
Publication InfoAlbuquerque : University of New Mexico Press, 2006.
Descriptionxvii, 298 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
Supplemental ContentTable of contents
Subjects

Contents Charles A. and Anne Morrow Lindbergh and the shaping of New Mexican history -- J. Robert Oppenheimer and the state of New Mexico : a reciprocal relationship -- 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.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references (p. 242-279) and index.
LCCN 2005027464
ISBN0826338836 (pbk. : alk. paper)
ISBN9780826338839

Availability

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Joyner General Stacks F801 .S97 2006 ✔ Available Place Hold