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Book Cover for: Fallout: The Hiroshima Cover-Up and the Reporter Who Revealed It to the World, Lesley M. M. Blume

Fallout: The Hiroshima Cover-Up and the Reporter Who Revealed It to the World

Lesley M. M. Blume

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A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK OF 2020 New York Times bestselling author Lesley M.M. Blume reveals how one courageous American reporter uncovered one of the deadliest cover-ups of the 20th century--the true effects of the atom bomb--potentially saving millions of lives. Just days after the United States decimated Hiroshima and Nagasaki with nuclear bombs, the Japanese surrendered unconditionally. But even before the surrender, the US government and military had begun a secret propaganda and information suppression campaign to hide the devastating nature of these experimental weapons. The cover-up intensified as Occupation forces closed the atomic cities to Allied reporters, preventing leaks about the horrific long-term effects of radiation which would kill thousands during the months after the blast. For nearly a year the cover-up worked--until New Yorker journalist John Hersey got into Hiroshima and managed to report the truth to the world. As Hersey and his editors prepared his article for publication, they kept the story secret--even from most of their New Yorker colleagues. When the magazine published "Hiroshima" in August 1946, it became an instant global sensation, and inspired pervasive horror about the hellish new threat that America had unleashed. Since 1945, no nuclear weapons have ever been deployed in war partly because Hersey alerted the world to their true, devastating impact. This knowledge has remained among the greatest deterrents to using them since the end of World War II. Released on the 75th anniversary of the Hiroshima bombing, Fallout is an engrossing detective story, as well as an important piece of hidden history that shows how one heroic scoop saved--and can still save--the world.

Book Details

  • Publisher: Simon & Schuster
  • Publish Date: Aug 10th, 2021
  • Pages: 288
  • Language: English
  • Edition: undefined - undefined
  • Dimensions: 8.36in - 5.54in - 0.76in - 0.56lb
  • EAN: 9781982128531
  • Categories: • Military - Nuclear Warfare• Editors, Journalists, Publishers• Military Science

About the Author

Blume, Lesley M. M.: - Lesley M.M. Blume is a Los Angeles-based journalist, author, and biographer. Her work has appeared in Vanity Fair, The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, and The Paris Review, among many other publications. Her last nonfiction book, Everybody Behaves Badly, was a New York Times bestseller.

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A bite-sized book review, sending subscribers well-crafted reviews by distinguished & engaging writers direct to their inboxes. ✍🏼 = our editor, Ann Kjellberg

Another event through @nypl: Lesley M.M. Blume, the author of Fallout, joins New Yorker editor Erin Overbey and journalist Janine di Giovanni to discuss the story behind John Hersey’s masterpiece “Hiroshima" tomorrow night. https://t.co/5HOrVKRF2z

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Welcome to the OFFICIAL Sperber Book Prize account! Awarding books of journalistic and biographical excellence since 1998 📚 Operated by @FordhamCMS

We are thrilled to announce two winners! The 2021 @SperberPrize for book on a media figure goes to BLACK RADICAL by @GreenidgeKerri (@wwnorton) & FALLOUT (about @NewYorker's John Hersey) by @lesleymmblume (@simonschuster) Given by @FordhamNYC @FordhamCMS https://news.fordham.edu/university-news/fordham-to-award-2021-sperber-prize-to-biographies-of-civil-rights-reporter-and-war-correspondent/

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Listening to Fallout by Lesley Blume a book about the shameful Hiroshima cover up and the American reporter who broke the story. https://t.co/f5UcEOPu8W

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Book Post
@BookPostUSA
2 years

A bite-sized book review, sending subscribers well-crafted reviews by distinguished & engaging writers direct to their inboxes. ✍🏼 = our editor, Ann Kjellberg

Another event through @nypl: Lesley M.M. Blume, the author of Fallout, joins New Yorker editor Erin Overbey and journalist Janine di Giovanni to discuss the story behind John Hersey’s masterpiece “Hiroshima" tomorrow night. https://t.co/5HOrVKRF2z

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Sperber Prize
@SperberPrize
3 years

Welcome to the OFFICIAL Sperber Book Prize account! Awarding books of journalistic and biographical excellence since 1998 📚 Operated by @FordhamCMS

We are thrilled to announce two winners! The 2021 @SperberPrize for book on a media figure goes to BLACK RADICAL by @GreenidgeKerri (@wwnorton) & FALLOUT (about @NewYorker's John Hersey) by @lesleymmblume (@simonschuster) Given by @FordhamNYC @FordhamCMS https://news.fordham.edu/university-news/fordham-to-award-2021-sperber-prize-to-biographies-of-civil-rights-reporter-and-war-correspondent/

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