Larger Than Life: New Mexico in the Twentieth Century
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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 center 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...
Format:Paperback
Language:English
ISBN:0826338836
ISBN13:9780826338839
Release Date:April 2006
Publisher:University of New Mexico Press
Length:316 Pages
Weight:1.20 lbs.
Dimensions:0.9" x 6.8" x 9.0"
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20th Century Education & Reference History Modern (16th-21st Centuries) State & LocalCustomer Reviews
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