James B. Conant: Harvard to Hiroshima and the Making of the Nuclear AgeJames B. Conant (1893-1978) was one of the giants of the American establishment in the twentieth century. President of Harvard University from 1933 to 1953, he was also a scientist who led the US government's effort to develop weapons of mass destruction, and his story mirrors the transition of the United States from isolationism to global superpower at the dawn of the nuclear age. 'This splendid portrait of Conant ... illuminates the life of a pivotal figure in the making of US nuclear, scientific, educational, and foreign policy for almost half a century. But the book is much more: it is not only an insightful narration of Conant's life, it is also a brilliant and important account of the making of the nuclear age, a chronicle that contains much that is new.' TheWashington Post 'The bomb would be as much Conant's as it was anyone's in government. His inner response to that burden of responsibility has long been obscured, but it is illumined here ... This is a model of historiography that is evocative reading.' The New York Times Book Review 'Vibrantly written and compelling, it breaches Conant's shield of public discretion in masterly fashion ... |
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One of the Outstanding Kibitzers of the Age | 3 |
Harvard College 19101913 | 20 |
Conant and World War I 19141918 | 35 |
Professor of Chemistry 19191933 | 49 |
President Conant Goes to War 19391940 | 111 |
Conant Bohr | 194 |
Shaping Hiroshimas Legacy 19451947 | 279 |
Building Bombs Again 1947 | 305 |
Intrigues in Bonn Berlin and Washington 19531955 | 650 |
Ambassador to West Germany 19551957 | 687 |
Educational Statesman 19571965 | 706 |
Winter for the Conant Family | 739 |
Appendixes | 757 |
Principal Sources | 773 |
279 | 804 |
305 | 818 |
A Secret Plan to Stop the Arms Race 1947 | 322 |
Conant Atomic Energy and the Public 19481949 | 355 |
The Conant Committee on Nuclear Information Policy 1949 | 374 |
Cold War Educator Part | 391 |
Nobody Is Safe August 1948May 1949 | 424 |
Commencement June 1949 | 450 |
The Battle over the HBomb 19491950 | 465 |
The Committee on the Present Danger 1950 | 523 |
Campaigning for Military Conscription 19501952 | 537 |
Conant and the Militarization of American Science 19501952 | 554 |
God and Man at Harvard | 578 |
Conant and Nuclear Weapons 19501952 | 590 |
Cold War Educator Part | 606 |
Educator to Diplomat 19501953 | 638 |
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