The Smithsonian Institution

Gore Vidal

earliest edition we have, 1998 Little Brown & Co., 1998 272 pages

A Harvest book

It's Good Friday 1939, and a teenage math prodigy from St. Albans School in Washington, D.C., is mysteriously summoned to the Smithsonian Institution, where a crash program to develop the atomic bomb is being conducted in the basement. Someone is also fooling around with the space-time continuum, and the preternaturally gifted teenager turns out to hold the key to both the secrets of nuclear fission and breakthroughs...

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The Smithsonian Institution audiobook · 2020 · Brilliance Audio · 9781543696226
The Smithsonian Institution edition · 1999 · Harcourt Brace · 260 pages
The Smithsonian Institution edition · 1999 · An Abacus Book · 272 pages · 9780349110721
The Smithsonian Institution edition · 1998 · Compass Press · 331 pages
The Smithsonian Institution edition · 1998 · Random House · 260 pages
The Smithsonian Institution edition · 1998 · Little Brown & Co. · 272 pages · 9780316645041

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