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The Beginning or the End: How Hollywood--And America--Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb

The Beginning or the End: How Hollywood--And America--Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb - Hardcover

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Availability:In StockContributor:Greg MitchellPublish date:2020-07-07Pages:272
Language:EnglishPublisher:New PressISBN-13:9781620975732ISBN-10:1620975734UPC:9781620975732Book Category:Performing Arts, HistoryBook Subcategory:Film, United States, Individual DirectorBook Topic:History & Criticism, 20th CenturySize:8.60 x 5.70 x 1.00 inchesWeight:1.0516Product ID:SCSPQSXBR3

The Beginning or the End: How Hollywood--And America--Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb

The shocking and significant story of how the White House and Pentagon scuttled an epic Hollywood production.

Soon after atomic bombs exploded over Hiroshima and Nagasaki in 1945, MGM set out to make a movie studio chief Louis B. Mayer called "the most important story" he would ever film: a big budget dramatization of the Manhattan Project and the invention and use of the revolutionary new...

Language:EnglishPublisher:New PressISBN-13:9781620975732ISBN-10:1620975734UPC:9781620975732Book Category:Performing Arts, HistoryBook Subcategory:Film, United States, Individual DirectorBook Topic:History & Criticism, 20th CenturySize:8.60 x 5.70 x 1.00 inchesWeight:1.0516Product ID:SCSPQSXBR3

Greg Mitchell's books include The Beginning or the End: How Hollywood Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (The New Press) as well as The Tunnels; The Campaign of the Century, winner of the Goldsmith Book Prize and finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize; Tricky Dick and the Pink Lady, a New York Times Notable Book; So Wrong for So Long; and, with Robert Jay Lifton, Hiroshima in...

Publisher: New Press

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Greg Mitchell

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