Tuxedo Park

Tuxedo Park by Jennet Conant. Published by Simon & Schuster, NY, 2002. 1st Edition 6th Printing. Hardbound w/Paper DJ. Size 8vo. Condition: V-Fine in Fine DJ. Black line bottom content edge. ISBN 0684872870. LCCN 2002021001. A Wall Street Tycoon and the Secret Palace of Science That Changed the Course of World War II. In the fall of 1940, the British unveiled their most valuable military secret in a clandestine meeting with American nuclear physicists at the Tuxedo Park mansion of a mysterious Wall Street tycoon, Alfred Lee Loomis. Powerful, handsome, and enormously wealthy, Loomis had for years led a double life, spending his days brokering huge deals and his weekends working with the world's leading scientist in his deluxe private laboratory that was hidden in a massive stone castle. In this dramatic account of a hitherto unexplored but crucial story of the war, the author traces one of the world's most extraordinary careers and scientific enterprises. Illustrated with black and white photographs. 330 Pgs. Description text copyright 2005 www.BooksForComfort.com. Item ID 8305.