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Jennet Conant
"Mesmerizing.... Conant's book has brought [Maggie Higgins] back to life." -Andrew Nagorski, Wall Street Journal
A spirited portrait of twentieth-century war correspondent Maggie Higgins and her tenacious fight to the…
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Jennet Conant (author)
The gripping story of a chemical weapons catastrophe, its cover-up, and how one army doctor’s discovery led to the development of chemotherapy.
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During the winter of 1940, the British government mounted a massive, secret campaign of propaganda to weaken the isolationist sentiment in America and manipulate the country into entering the war…
The gripping story of a chemical weapons catastrophe, the cover-up, and how one American Army doctor’s discovery led to the development of the first drug to combat cancer, known today…
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Examines the life of one of the most influential men of the greatest generation, James B. Conant–a savvy architect of the nuclear age and the Cold War–told by his granddaughter…
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A spirited portrait of twentieth-century war correspondent Maggie Higgins and her tenacious fight to the top in a male-dominated profession.
Originally published: New York: Simon & Schuster, 2011.
Marguerite Higgins was both the scourge and envy of the…
Prior to the U.S. entering World War II, a small coterie of British spies in Washington, D.C., was formed. Richly detailed and carefully researched, Conant creates a fascinating, lively account…
Prior to the U.S. entering WWII, a small coterie of British spies in Washington, D.C., was formed. They called themselves the Baker Street Irregulars after the band of street urchins…
