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Jennet Conant

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Jennet Conant

Jennet Conant is the author of the New York Times bestsellers The Irregulars: Roald Dahl and the British Spy Ring in Wartime Washington and Tuxedo Park: A Wall Street Tycoon and the Secret Palace of Science That Changed the Course of World War II. A... Read full bio

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A. "Catch the good within reach--that is the great art of life." Samuel Johnson
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Excerpt 1 from Tuxedo Park
Aug 30, 2012
A Covert Affair will be released on November 01, 2011 in Trade Paperback
Nov 01, 2011
A Covert Affair is now available in Trade Paperback
Nov 01, 2011
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A Covert Affair
Oct 12, 2011
Excerpt:
Excerpt 1 from A Covert Affair
May 11, 2011
A Covert Affair will be released on April 05, 2011 in Hardcover, Compact Disk, eAudio, eBook
Apr 05, 2011
A Covert Affair is now available in Hardcover, Compact Disk, eAudio, eBook
Apr 05, 2011
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Chapter 1 from A Covert Affair
Mar 23, 2011
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A Covert Affair
Mar 18, 2011
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109 East Palace
Jan 25, 2011
The Irregulars is now available in Trade Paperback
Sep 15, 2009
The Irregulars will be released on September 08, 2009 in Trade Paperback
Sep 08, 2009
The Irregulars is now available in Trade Paperback
Sep 08, 2009

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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...
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...
Individual.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...
Island Packet, November 17, 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...
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,...
Daily Local News, September 17, 2012
...2 p.m., free. Sept. 20 -- History Book Club meets to discuss "A Covert Affair," by Jennet Conant, 11 a.m. Sept. 21 -- Mini-trip to the Franklin Institute in Philadelphia for the Dead Sea Scrolls exhibit. Leave center at 10 a.m. Reservations needed. ...
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...
Daily Local News, September 3, 2012
...m. Cost is $5. Sept. 20 -- History Book Club meets to discuss "A Covert Affair," by Jennet Conant, 11 a.m. Sept. 21 -- Mini-trip to the Franklin Institute in Philadelphia to see the Dead Sea Scrolls exhibit. Leave center at 10 a.m. Reservations...