Title: good if you're touring the region; otherwise skip
Product review: The director of Los Alamos National Lab is described as an Austrian-American and then his name is consistently given as "Sid Hecker". Sixty seconds of searching the web could have confirmed that Sidney is not a very popular name among Austrians and that "Sig Hecker" was director of LANL at the time of the book.Sloppy facts rolled into a well-organized and well-told story would be great, but this volume brings to mind a non-fan of Gibbon, upon obtaining a later book! Scribble, scribble, scribble, eh, Gibbon?"Still, there is enough to like and the book is fat enough that I think it might make a good companion while touring the Southwest. I give Shoumatoff for not respecting arbitrary political boundaries. He includes a substantial amount of material about territory that is now part of Mexico.
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