Bird kai editor lifschultz lawrence editor (5 risultati)

paperback. Condizione: Good. Signed and inscribed by one of the editors, Lawrence Lifschultz, to previous owner. Gentle surface wear of covers. Text unmarked.

hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. First Edition. First Printing. Pamphleteers Press 1998. Hardcover in Dust Jacket. Pages clean, crisp, unmarked. Cover and Jacket have light wear. Shipped promptly with Tracking. MISC5.

Hardcover. Condizione: Good. Condizione sovraccoperta: Good. First Printing [Stated]. lxxvii, [1], 584, [2] pages. Illustrations. Notes. Contributors, Select Bibliography. Acknowledgments. Preface by Dr. Joseph Rotblat, winner of the Nobel Peace Prize. This is a compilation of Writings on the Denial of History and the Smithsonian Controversy. Ex-library with usual library markings. DJ is in a plastic sleeve taped to boards. Kai Bird (born September 2, 1951) is an American author and columnist, best known for his biographies of political figures. He won a Pulitzer Prize for American Prometheus: The Triumph and Tragedy of J. Robert Oppenheimer. Lawrence Lifschultz is an esteemed international journalist and author. Among the contributors are: Gar Alperovitz, Wilfred Burchett, P.M.S. Blackett, Paul Fussell, Lewis Mumford, Mike Wallace, and John Dower. An exhaustive, controversial, and moving volume that has its origins in the Smithsonian Institution's cancellation of a planned exhibition in 1994-95 of the Enola Gay, the plane that dropped the atomic bomb on Hiroshima. The book moves along two paths: a painstaking analysis of how and why the bomb came to be used, and a provocative deliberation on what the editors term the "pathology of denial" in the US surrounding our use of the bomb. The first part of the book offers selections by present-day historians. The second part is devoted to essays written shortly after the bombing. Part three focuses on the Smithsonian controversy itself. Part four presents chilling first-person accounts of the day Hiroshima died. The final part is devoted to historical documents, memos, and diary entries of those who participated in the decision to use the bomb and also public statements pleading against this decision.…

hardcover. Condizione: New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title.

Hardcover. Condizione: Brand New. 584 pages. 10.50x7.50x2.00 inches. In Stock.