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

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Szasz, Ferenc Morton, 1940-2010.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

History.

New Mexico--History--20th century.

New Mexico.

New Mexico--Biography.

Genre:

Biographies.

Physical Description:

xvii, 298 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

Albuquerque : University of New Mexico Press, 2006.

Summary:

"Larger than Life" offers eleven essays that touch on New Mexico's history through its people, places, and events.

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.

Notes:

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

ISBN:

0826338836

OCLC:

61731302

Publisher Number:

9780826338839