Books by Denise Kiernan
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review 1: Enjoyable read. Only parts I didn't like were the extreme scientific chapters on "tubealloy." It's fascinating that people worked on this project and had no idea what they were creating. The sheer number of people (75,000) to run Oak Ridge during the creation of the atomic bomb w...
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review 1: If I had a choice, I would have given this 2.5 stars, rather than just 2. It was a struggle to finish, but I really did want to read the whole thing. I decided to read this while waiting for another Denise Kiernan book from the library, to get a sense of her writing style. I like...
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review 1: This book was not for me. It simply did not hold my interested. I wouldn't have picked it up had it not been a book club selection. It sounded like it had potential to be interesting. It told of the creation of the town of Oakridge Tennessee in 1942. It's secret purpose was ...
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review 1: This is a non-fiction story about the plant in Oak Ridge TN where they worked on tubealloy for the Atomic Bomb during WW2. Specifically this is about the untold story of the women who worked were recruited to this secret military facility.It is quite an interesting story. This ...
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review 1: This is an excellent book if you are or planning to be a freelancer in the future. It gives you a lot of information in a very realistic way. It is a pretty basic book, but if you have at least have a basic knowledge of finance, then this is not for you. I do wish the authors ...
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review 1: This book was very good for what it was, and excellent for what it turned into. As a source of short biographies of each of the signers of the US Constitution, it was interesting. It gave very short(generally 3-4 pages) overviews of who thought what and where they fell in the big...