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By Denise Kiernan
THE women OF ATOMIC C ITY
AT the peak of global conflict II, Oak Ridge, Tennessee, used to be domestic to 75,000 citizens, eating extra electrical energy than ny urban. yet to many of the international, town didn't exist. millions of civilians--many of them younger women from small cities around the South--were recruited to this mystery urban, enticed via reliable wages and the promise of war-ending paintings. stored greatly at midnight, few could ever bet the genuine nature of the initiatives they played on a daily basis within the hulking factories in the midst of the Appalachian Mountains. that's, till the tip of the war--when Oak Ridge's mystery was once printed.
Drawing at the voices of the ladies who lived it--women who're now of their eighties and nineties-- The women of Atomic urban rescues a extraordinary, forgotten bankruptcy of yank heritage from obscurity. Denise Kiernan captures the spirit of the days via those girls: their pluck, their wish to give a contribution, and their enduring braveness. Combining the grand-scale human drama of The Worst tough Time with the intimate biography and infrequently troubling technology of The Immortal lifetime of Henrietta Lacks, The ladies of Atomic urban is a long-lasting and critical addition to our country's history.
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