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Jennet Conant (born July 15, 1959) is an American non-fiction author and journalist.
Jennet Conant is the author of four bestsellers: Tuxedo Park: A Wall Street Tycoon and the Secret Palace of Science that Changed the Course of WWII, 109 East Palace: Robert Oppenheimer and the Secret City of Los Alamos, The Irregulars: Roald Dahl and the British Spy Ring in Wartime Washington, and A Covert Affair: Julia Child and Paul Child in ...
Nov 1, 2023 · FIERCE AMBITION: The Life and Legend of War Correspondent Maggie Higgins, by Jennet Conant. From the cover of the journalist and best-selling writer Jennet Conant’s biography of the...
Nov 7, 2017 · Jennet Conant is the acclaimed author of four previous books about World War II, including two best-selling volumes on Los Alamos and the Manhattan Project. But she is also...
Jennet Conant is an American non-fiction author and journalist. She has written seven books about World War II: Fierce Ambition: The Life and Legend of War Correspondent Maggie Higgins, The Great Secret: The Classified World War II Disaster that Launched the War on Cancer, Man of the Hour: James B. Conant – Warrior Scientist , Tuxedo Park: A ...
Aug 28, 2020 · In “The Great Secret,” Jennet Conant argues that the 1943 bombing of a ship full of mustard gas helped spur research into cancer treatments.
Better than any spy fiction, The Irregulars is a fascinating, lively account of deceit, double dealing, and moral ambiguity—all in the name of victory. Richly detailed and carefully researched, Conant’s masterful narrative is based on never-before-seen wartime letters, diaries, and interviews.
Oct 31, 2023 · In her latest biography, “Fierce Ambition,” Jennet Conant examines Higgins’s life and legend, telling us where she came from and how she found fame, if not fortune. She describes Higgins’s ...
May 6, 2003 · Jennet Conant, the granddaughter of James Bryant Conant, one of the leading scientific advisers of World War II, enjoyed unprecedented access to Loomis’ papers, as well as to people intimately involved in his life and work.
Sep 19, 2017 · Now New York Times bestselling author Jennet Conant recreates the cataclysmic events of the twentieth century as her grandfather James experienced them. She describes the guilt, fears, and sometimes regret of those who invented and deployed the bombs and the personal toll it took.
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