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SOMETHING INCREDIBLY WONDERFUL HAPPENS
By: K. C. Cole
Houghton Mifflin Company
July 2009
On Sale: July 7, 2009
Featuring: Frank Oppenheimer
256 pages
ISBN: 0151008221
EAN: 9780151008223
Hardcover
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Non-Fiction Biography
As a young man Frank Oppenheimer followed in his famous brotherβs footstepsβgrowing up in a privileged Manhattan household, becoming a physicist, working on the atomic bomb. Tragically, Frank and Robert both had their careers destroyed by the Red Scare. But their paths diverged. While Robert died an almost ruined man, Frank came into his own, emerging from ten years of exile on a Colorado ranch to create not just a multimillion dollar institution but also a revolution that was felt all over the world. His Exploratorium was a "museum of human awareness" that combined art and science while it encouraged play, experimentation, and a sense of joy and wonder; its success inspired a transformation in museums around the globe. In many ways it was Frankβs answer to the atom bomb. K. C. Coleβa friend and colleague of Frankβs for many yearsβhas drawn from letters, documents, and extensive interviews to write a very personal story of the man whose irrepressible spirit would inspire so many.
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