Atomic Frontier Days: Hanford and the American West is a nonfiction book describing the history of the Hanford Site. It details the history of Hanford and the neighboring Tri-Cities region during World War II and the Cold War. A review in the Journal of American History called it "a narrative of tangled, contending motives and complex consequences that does not end happily" and noted its writing "with the broad view of western-regional as well as local and national concerns" compared to other more locally-oriented works such as On the Home Front: The Cold War Legacy of the Hanford Nuclear Site, Made in Hanford: The Bomb That Changed the World and Working on the Bomb: An Oral History of WWII Hanford.[1]
 First edition | |
| Author | John M. Findlay and Bruce Hevly |
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| Publisher | University of Washington Press |
Publication date | 2011 |
| Pages | 368 |
| ISBN | 978-0-295-99097-2 |
References
editSources
edit- Johnson, Michael L. (June 2012), "Atomic Frontier Days: Hanford and the American West Johnson", Journal of American History (book review), 99 (1): 351, doi:10.1093/jahist/jas154
Further reading
edit- Reviews
- Krupar, Jason (2012), "Review of Atomic Frontier Days: Hanford and the American West", Technology and Culture, 53 (3): 724–725, doi:10.1353/tech.2012.0107, S2CID 108705706 Project MUSE
- David E. Nye (2012), "Atomic Frontier Days: Hanford and the American West", Isis (book review), 103 (4), University of Chicago Press : 804–805, doi:10.1086/670113
- John Wills (April 10, 2014), "Atomic Frontier Days: Hanford and the American West", Business History Review (book review), Cambridge University Press for Harvard Business School, doi:10.1017/S0007680513001517
- Jim Kershner (June 5, 2011). "Book Notes: Hanford's legacy detailed in new books". The Spokesman-Review. Spokane.
- Kate Brown (January 2012). "Atomic Frontier Days: Hanford and the American West". H-Net Environment (book review).
- Hunter Hollins (Spring 2012), "Review of "Atomic Frontier Days: Hanford and the American West."", Montana: The Magazine of Western History, vol. 62, no. 1, pp. 76–77
- Blake Slonecker (Spring 2012), "Review of Atomic Frontier Days: Hanford and the American West", Columbia, vol. 26, no. 1, pp. 28–29