Larger Than Life: New Mexico in the Twentieth Century

by Ferenc Morton Szasz

Book Overview

Larger than Life offers eleven essays that touch on a variety of southwestern themes. One section highlights three people who have dramatically shaped the region's history: pilot Charles A. Lindbergh, who helped turn New Mexico into a regional center for aviation and rocketry during the interwar years; physicist J. Robert Oppenheimer, who believed that New Mexico had restored him to health in the 1920s, and, as a consequence, chose Los Alamos...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0826338836
• ISBN13: 9780826338839
• Release Date: April 2006
• Publisher: University of New Mexico Press
• Length: 316 Pages
• Weight: 1.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.8" x 9.0"