Dinner in Camelot : The Night America's Greatest Scientists, Writers, and Scholars Partied at the Kennedy White House /

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In April 1962, President and Mrs. John F. Kennedy hosted forty-nine Nobel Prize winners--along with many other prominent scientists, artists, and writers--at a famed White House dinner. Among the guests were J. Robert Oppenheimer, who was officially welcomed back to Washington after a stint in the p...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Esposito, Joseph A. (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Baltimore, Maryland : Project Muse, 2018
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Kennedy, John F. > (John Fitzgerald), > 1917-1963.
Kennedy, John F. > (John Fitzgerald), > 1917-1963 > Friends and associates.
White House (Washington, D.C.) > History > 20th century.
Entertaining > Washington (D.C.) > History > 20th century.
Political culture > United States > History > 20th century.
Nobel Prize winners.
Washington (D.C.) > Social life and customs > 20th century.
United States > Politics and government > 1961-1963.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Prologue : heading to dinner
  • America in transition
  • Camelot at midpoint
  • Poetry, prose, and politics
  • America's queen and America's hero
  • Redemption and promise
  • Is that Linus Pauling?
  • "The fire next time"
  • A galaxy of geniuses
  • An after-party
  • Lives connected
  • Epilogue : nothing like it since.

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