Jennet Conant: "Tuxedo Park" (Simon & Schuster) (original) (raw)

Tuesday, Aug 13 2002 • 11 a.m. (ET)

Author Jennet Conant shares the story of Alfred Lee Loomis, an enormously successful but now largely forgotten Wall Street tycoon who personally bankrolled some of the key scientific developments of World War II, including radar and the atom bomb.

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