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Radio World Newspaper, February 12, 2013
...a 1978 tech and business history of Hollywood’s conversion to sound, by Alexander Walker; “Tuxedo Park” by Jennet Conant, published in 2003, a history of the private technology think tank near New York City that in World War II accelerated the...
The Fig Tree, November 16, 2012
...Julia Child’s experience with propaganda during war lends insights into dynamics of politics today Sometimes I felt Julia Child helped save my sanity in the early 1960s. Our family moved to Pittsburgh where my husband, just out of graduate school,...
The Fig Tree, September 7, 2012
...Julia Child’s experience with propaganda lends insights into politics today Sometimes I felt Julia Child helped save my sanity in the early 1960s. Our family moved to Pittsburgh where my husband, just out of graduate school, found a job. The main...
Philadelphia City Paper, August 10, 2012
...trilling her words in her extraordinarily operatic, unique accented French" — have been captured with three-dimensional zeal in Jennet Conant's A Covert Affair: Julia Child and Paul Child in the OSS (Simon & Schuster, April 5). The urbane Conant (The...
Oak Park-River Forest Patch, June 11, 2012
...era of surprising nuance and complexity... A Covert Affair: When Julia & Paul Child Joined the OSS by Jennet Conant It is a stunning account of Julia and Paul Child's experiences as members of the Office of Strategic Strategies (OSS) in the Far East...
Seacoast Online, May 8, 2013
...McIntyre (also available as audio book). For D-Day to be successful, accurate intelligence was key "The Irregulars" by Jennet Conant (also available as audio book). Washington was awash with spies during the war, including British officers like Roald...
York Weekly, May 8, 2013
...McIntyre (also available as audio book). For D-Day to be successful, accurate intelligence was key "The Irregulars" by Jennet Conant (also available as audio book). Washington was awash with spies during the war, including British officers like Roald...
Portsmouth Herald, May 8, 2013
...McIntyre (also available as audio book). For D-Day to be successful, accurate intelligence was key "The Irregulars" by Jennet Conant (also available as audio book). Washington was awash with spies during the war, including British officers like Roald...
Ridgefield Press, April 21, 2013
...way. In A Covert Affair: Julia Child and Paul Child in the OSS (Simon and Schuster, 2011), author Jennet Conant tells about Martha Dodd Stern, a writer and native of Virginia, who died in 1990. While living in Germany in the 1930s, Ms. Stern became a...
Ridgefield Press, April 21, 2013
...way. In A Covert Affair: Julia Child and Paul Child in the OSS (Simon and Schuster, 2011), author Jennet Conant tells about Martha Dodd Stern, a writer and native of Virginia, who died in 1990. While living in Germany in the 1930s, Ms. Stern became a...
Radio World Newspaper, February 12, 2013
...a 1978 tech and business history of Hollywood’s conversion to sound, by Alexander Walker; “Tuxedo Park” by Jennet Conant, published in 2003, a history of the private technology think tank near New York City that in World War II accelerated the...
TradingCharts.com, November 18, 2012
...World War II with the invention of radar is best told in the book "Tuxedo Park," by Jennet Conant. The complex financial instruments devised by Loomis and Thorne are best explained in a newer book, "740 Park: The Story of the World's Richest Apartment...
















