Random House, New York, 1998. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Fine Condition/Fine. Dust Jacket is in fine condition without tears or chips or other damage. Dust Jacket price-clipped. Quantity Available: 1. Category: Literature & Literary; ISBN: 0375501215. ISBN/EAN: 9780375501210. Pictures of this item not already displayed here available upon request. Inventory No: 2606. . 9780375501210

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It's 1939, and a teenage math genius is mysteriously summoned to the Smithsonian Institution, where a crash program to develop the atomic bomb is being conducted in the basement. The boy turns out to hold the key to both the secrets of nuclear fission and breakthroughs in the time continuum. As he brainstorms with Robert Oppenheimer, he catches a glimpse of the coming war and becomes determined to ward off the cataclysm. In a race against time-and surrounded by figures from American history past and present, including Albert Einstein, Grover Cleveland, and Abraham Lincoln-he battles to save not just himself, but humanity. Gore Vidal has written some of the finest and most inventive novels in modern times. Readers of such bestsellers as Burr, Lincoln, Duluth, and 1876 will revel in this, his latest foray into the American scene. A brilliant and vividly imaginative tale about some of the key events of the twentieth century, The Smithsonian Institution is a dramatic masterwork of comedy and allusion.

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Bookseller: ArchersBooks.com (US)
Bookseller's Inventory #: 2606
Title: The Smithsonian Institution
Author: Vidal, Gore
Format/Binding: Hardcover
Book Condition: Used - Fine Condition
Jacket Condition: Fine
Quantity Available: 1
Edition: 1st Edition
ISBN 10: 0375501215
ISBN 13: 9780375501210
Publisher: Random House
Place of Publication: New York
Date Published: 1998
Keywords: BZDB185 Literature & Literary; ISBN: 0375501215 EAN: 9780375501210 Vidal, Gore The Smithsonian Institution

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