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Larger Than Life
Ferenc Morton Szasz
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Description for Larger Than Life
Paperback. Offers eleven essays that touch on a variety of Southwestern themes. The essays explore the cultural appeal of the Land of Enchantment from 1945, as well as the horrific ammunition explosion that virtually wiped the hamlet of Tolar, New Mexico, off the map in 1944. Num Pages: 298 pages, b/w photos. BIC Classification: 1KBBWX; 3JJ; WQH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 230 x 155 x 24. Weight in Grams: 531.
'Larger than Life' offers eleven essays that touch on a variety of southwestern themes. One section highlights three people who have dramatically shaped the region's history. Pilot Charles A Lindbergh, who helped turn New Mexico into a regional centre for aviation and rocketry during the interwar years. Physicist J Robert Oppenheimer, who believed that New Mexico had restored him to health in the 1920s, and, as a consequence, chose Los Alamos as the site for the nation's top secret weapons laboratory in 1942. And, first-term congressman Bill Richardson (currently governor), who inaugurated his skills at compromise by resolving a bitter ... Read more
'Larger than Life' offers eleven essays that touch on a variety of southwestern themes. One section highlights three people who have dramatically shaped the region's history. Pilot Charles A Lindbergh, who helped turn New Mexico into a regional centre for aviation and rocketry during the interwar years. Physicist J Robert Oppenheimer, who believed that New Mexico had restored him to health in the 1920s, and, as a consequence, chose Los Alamos as the site for the nation's top secret weapons laboratory in 1942. And, first-term congressman Bill Richardson (currently governor), who inaugurated his skills at compromise by resolving a bitter ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2006
Publisher
University of New Mexico Press United States
Number of pages
298
Condition
New
Number of Pages
298
Place of Publication
Albuquerque, NM, United States
ISBN
9780826338839
SKU
V9780826338839
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