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At the height of World Conflict II, Oak Ridge, Tennessee, was home to 75,000 residents, consuming more electricity than NEW YORK. But to the majority of the world, the town did not exist. A large number of civilians - most of them young women from small cities across the South - were recruited to this hidden knowledge city, enticed by sturdy income and the offer of war-ending work. Kept quite definitely in the dark, few would ever before guess the true dynamics of the responsibilities they performed every day in the hulking factories in the middle of the Appalachian Mountains. That's, before end of the conflict - when Oak Ridge's solution was revealed. Sketching on the voices of the ladies who lived it - women who are now in their eighties and nineties - The Females of Atomic City rescues a remarkable, forgotten chapter of American record from obscurity. Denise Kiernan captures the nature of the days through these women: their pluck, their want to add, and their long lasting courage. Merging the grand-scale individuals episode of The Most severe Hard Time with the seductive biography and frequently troubling knowledge of The Immortal Life of Henrietta Does not have, GIRLS of Atomic City is a sustained and important addition to our country's history.
