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Title: The Last Reunion
Subtitle: The Class of 1952 Comes Home to the Secret City
Author: Jay Searcy
Narrator: James McSorley, Betsy Grisard
Format: Unabridged
Length: 10 hrs and 24 mins
Language: English
Release date: 07-02-15
Publisher: Jay Searcy publishing
Genres: History, 20th Century
Publisher's Summary:
There was a time when America was a team, when the free world had the tremors and looked to us for help. There was a time when we made sacrifices without complaint, supported our president without question and honored the standards of decency. There was a time of American patriotism and pride, of hope and love and humility. It was World War II and the nation was one.
This audiobook is about those days, specifically about Oak Ridge, Tennessee and the war at home; about the thousands upon thousands of everyday Americans who joined hands as strangers in a near classless society and secretly pulled off the greatest scientific experiment in history - the making of the atomic bomb. We, the Oak Ridge High Class of 1952, were their children and we, too, joined hands as strangers. We have never let go.
In our mid-seventies now, we came home for a last reunion in the summer of 2010 and brought our stories with us - memories of our working parents and our neighbors and the genius scientists who lived together behind a secret curtain and helped create the miracle of Oak Ridge, the womb of the Atomic Age. What did we see there, what did we hear there and whatever happened to them and to us?
Members Reviews:
News from the children of Secret City
I just finished the book, "Girls of Atomic City", which does a brilliant job of telling the story of Oak Ridge, TN, from the viewpoint of the adults involved. That is the subject of another review. This one by Jay Searcy, a true insider, is a tremendous book as a companion to the "Girls", or as a stand-alone experience. As one of his subjects says, he and his classmates were not part of the Greatest Generation, or the Baby Boomers, but they were raised by the Greatest Generation, and that stands for something. This tells what the Oak Ridge experience was like for the children who moved there from all over America, for their parents to contribute to the War Effort. The book has several distinct sections, and all are well done: background, overview, synopsis of class members, and individual narratives about the experience from 1944 until 2010. I found the whole collection touching, edifying, and worth every minute as I soaked up their narratives.
The Oak Ridge story from those who lived it...
I really enjoyed this story of the founding, development and eventual success of the Oak Ridge project. I have heard bits and pieces over the years since I am a WW2 baby. The whole story needed to be told. I liked the way it was told from a personal point of view. It was told in reportorial form letting the people who did the work tell their story.Scientists and carpenters, all of them with a story. It was an amazing tale of secrecy, patriotism and scientific energy that made the bomb possible. Each player had a part and told his place in the history. The style was similar to the WW2 book "The Good War" in which the stories were woven together into a lattice work of art. The author also shared the culture of the time with people from all parts of the US coming together to live in a form of "harmony" with one purpose...to win the war. The book gives a small bit of hope for America and what it can do when it is united in a common cause.
Thank you for letting me give my favorite cousin a meaningful gift
This was a gift for a cousin that lived in Oak Ridge during WWII when her father worked there.
