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Daniel Burton

A real life Tony Stark...but with fewer villains.

Commenté aux États-Unis 🇺🇸 le 28 février 2016

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He's a Wall Street tycoon, a brilliant scientific mind, and an inventor of devices and instruments used by the military to defeat the forces of evil.

No, he's not Tony Stark; he's Alfred Lee Loomis, and his work helped bring down the Nazis and win World War II. And yet, you're unlikely to find a lot of information on Loomis in the history books. A businessman turned scientist, he was one step up from a dilettante among scientists, possessing the abilities to understand and to cultivate scientific research in his top of the line, skunk-works lab that he built on his property in the decades preceding World War II. His rise was remarkable for the seeming ease with which he accomplished every task before him.

Prior to the war, Loomis built a fortune as a Wall Street investor selling bonds for the incipient utilities industry. As the market began to bubble, Loomis recognized the signs of instability, and divested his holdings in utilities. Then as the crash of 1929 rolled the country, he earned even more through careful investing, growing his fortune at a time when others were ruined. By the time the 1930s were closing, Loomis had been able to leave business with a fortune that put him in the upper echelons of society in America, while at the same time allowing him to pursue his true interest, scientific research. As World War II began, and the Nazi menace spread, Loomis joined a nationwide network of scientists working to develop technologies that would help defeat Germany and its allies.

Loomis' story is remarkable, but in many ways felt lacking largely because of the lack of tension or obstacle. Written by a descendent, Tuxedo Park (the location of the laboratory Loomis built) feels like a long Wall Street Journal article, where quotations are given with the expectation that they will appear in the press and facts are presented dispassionately. In short, the story lacks narrative, a sense of progress. Loomis appears on the scene--whatever the scene may be-- and sua sponte achieves his aims. As one friend suggested while discussing the book, there's not many obstacles that can't be overcome, apparently, if you're both brilliant and filthy stinking rich. Especially rich.

And yet, wealth is no excuse for a flat story. Theodore Roosevelt and Winston Churchill also came from means, rising from wealthy families, but both would overcome great obstacles during their life to create biographies that beg to be told. If Loomis has that story, I found this one to be lacking in that regards. While I'm glad to have learned a new chapter of the World War II saga, I don't know that I would have missed not reading it.

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stingray

The writer style was not reader friendly so I never finished the book

Commenté aux États-Unis 🇺🇸 le 23 novembre 2015

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This book was mentioned in one of Tim Ferris(Four Hour Week) podcast. I love historical novels of real characters in history. My favorite writer is Laura Hillenbrand of Unbroken and Seabiscuit books. Her books I can't put down.
This book I had to push myself to continue reading, it felt more like a textbook then a fasinating story. The story is remarkable and her backstory where she grew up with Alred Loomis children and got all of his information-and wrote a story about a secretive man who did so much. Although I did not finish the book ,however,
I read (in other places)he helped in WWll with the discovery of radar and helped in the development of the atomic bomb.

In a slow reading period, I might give it another chance and try to finish it.

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James Schaeffer

The story is better than the book.

Commenté aux États-Unis 🇺🇸 le 28 mai 2018

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Watch the PBS one hour show on American Experience(?) instead. The writer goes off track through much of the book instead of sticking to the fascinating personal story of Alfred Lee Loomis and his fellow geniuses who fully developed radar just in time for WW Two and could microwave fish swimming in a lake hundreds of yards away.

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Sekhar Banerjee

Not a bad read

Commenté aux États-Unis 🇺🇸 le 25 mai 2017

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This is a well researched document on the life of Alfrd Loomis and the development of Radar Technology. The author ought to have been in describing scientific episodes. Those pages are really painful to read. The author ought to have the help from students of science or not going into the details.

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Maurice

Fascinating Bio of a Once Influential Scientist

Commenté aux États-Unis 🇺🇸 le 23 juillet 2014

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I confess never having heard of Alfred Loomis till I read this book. Ms Conant has done a great service to our collective history by bringing his life and accomplishments to our attention. My major disappointment was how little time was devoted to discussion of the development of the bomb. The cover photos led me to believe that Loomis and Oppenheimer would share the spotlight but there was precious little of Oppenheimer in this book.

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Marcia Fox

Title above is incorrect!

Commenté aux États-Unis 🇺🇸 le 7 avril 2014

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The book itself was interesting and well written, but it was definitely not about Oppenheimer and Los Alamos. It is a story about Loomis, his background and his passion for tinkering with physics, and peripherely, about the work done by the MIT Rad Lab and some of the Manhattan Project's origins. Still a good read about an unusual man.

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Anita

The title is not what it seems

Commenté aux États-Unis 🇺🇸 le 27 mars 2014

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The title threw me. I wanted to read about Robert Oppenheimer. Although it was interesting, somewhat, it had just about nothing to do with Robert Oppenheimer and Los Alamos. It was about Alfred Lee Loomis who was very instrumental in developing radar with his millions that he made on Wall Street before the crash in 1929.

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Capt Jake Sokoldalu

as I do with good books.

Commenté aux États-Unis 🇺🇸 le 11 novembre 2015

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interesting read, but probably won't re-read, as I do with good books.

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Educational bio

Commenté aux États-Unis 🇺🇸 le 4 juin 2014

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As a lover of history I enjoyed learning of Loomis' involvement in the Second World War. It was very hard to stay with the story on some occasions and Loomis was definitely a different kind of person.

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sooz

Three Stars

Commenté aux États-Unis 🇺🇸 le 17 septembre 2017

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Too detailed in ephemera to hold my interest, even though the topic intrigues me on several levels.

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