The Girls of Atomic City by Denise Kiernan
THE GIRLS OF ATOMIC C ITYAT THE HEIGHT OF WORLD WAR I, Oak Ridge, Tennessee, was home to 75,000 residents, consuming more electricity than New York City. But to most of the world, the town did not exist. Thousands of civilians--many of them young women from small towns across the South--were recruited to this secret city, enticed by solid wages and the promise of war-ending work. Kept very much in the dark, few would ever guess the true nature of the tasks they performed each day in the hulking factories in the middle of the Appalachian Mountains. That is, until the end of the war--when Oak Ridge's secret was revealed.
Drawing on the voices of the women who lived it--women who are now in their eighties and nineties-- The Girls of Atomic City rescues a remarkable, forgotten chapter of American history from obscurity. Denise Kiernan captures the spirit of the times through these women: their pluck, their desire to contribute, and their enduring courage. Combining the grand-scale human drama of The Worst Hard Time with the intimate biography and often troubling science of The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks, The Girls of Atomic City is a lasting and important addition to our country's history.
Denise Kiernan is the author of The Last Castle, which was a New York Times and Wall Street Journal bestseller. The Girls of Atomic City, her previous book, was a New York Times, Los Angeles Times, and NPR bestseller. Kiernan's work has appeared in a variety of magazines, including The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, The Village Voice, Reader's Digest, Discover, and many others. She has also worked in television, as the chief writer for ABC's Who Wants to Be a Millionaire during its Emmy-winning first season and as a producer for ESPN and MSNBC. She has been on NPR's Weekend Edition, PBS NewsHour, MSNBC's Morning Joe, and Jon Stewart's The Daily Show.
| SKU | Unavailable |
| EAN | 9781480597266 |
| Title | The Girls of Atomic City |
| Release date | 2014-03-11 |
| Format | Audiobook Unabridged |
| Studio | Brilliance Audio |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Note | Unavailable |
| By (author) | Denise Kiernan |
| Narrator | Cassandra Campbell |