Highways to the World: The Engineer, the Teacher, and the Dangerous 20th Century

by DeMers, John
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ISBN: 9781939055446
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From one Golden Age of Texas highways to another, wrapped around an extended wartime period building the atomic bomb in the secret city of Oak Ridge, Tennessee, Carolyn Calvin Kneese's father and mother lived near the dangerous heartbeat of the twentieth century. As a child, Carolyn knew little of the engineering work her father did the globe-changing political purposes behind it. Highways to the World is one daughter's personal journey into history. Here are striking portraits of events, from small-town Texas childhoods to life as a cadet at Texas A&M after World War I, from the family's rescue by the US Navy during the Suez Crisis in 1956 to overseas aid assignments invariably tied to our nation's anticommunist foreign policy. With a tough detective's eye and a loving daughter's heart, Carolyn seeks out her parents' side-by-side forms in these snapshots from their century.
  • Format: Hardcover
  • Author: DeMers, John
  • ISBN: 9781939055446
  • Condition: Used
  • Dimensions: 9.10 x 0.90
  • Number Of Pages: 224
  • Publication Year: 2013

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