An
Exhibit Denied : Lobbying the History of Enola Gay
by Martin Harwit
Martin Harwit's An Exhibit Denied is a cautionary tale about what happens
when politics intrudes on the objective quest for truth. The year 1995
marked the 50th anniversary of the flight of the Enola Gay, the plane that
dropped an atomic bomb on Hiroshima. In preparation for that anniversary,
the Smithsonian Institution's National Air and Space Museum began work
on an exhibit that would not only reprise the events surrounding the bombing,
but would also examine the bomb's impact on people--both Japanese and American,
civilian and military. Under the guidance of Martin Harwit, a former professor
of astrophysics at Cornell University, the planned exhibit included, among
other things, Japanese civilian artifacts from the bombing and documents
showing that high-ranking military leaders such as Dwight D. Eisenhower
had grave doubts about dropping the bomb. Most controversially, the exhibit
did not support the commonly held belief that the bombing saved countless
lives by preventing a land invasion, and this is what eventually led to
its downfall. Harwit pointed out that there was no way of knowing how the
war would have ended without bombs; the American Legion national commander
demanded that President Clinton shut the exhibit down.
What followed was a donnybrook of epic proportions as the media, the
Republican-dominated Congress, and veterans' lobbying groups all portrayed
Harwit's attempt to present the Enola Gay in an objective light as antipatriotic,
left-wing propaganda. Eventually, Harwit was dismissed and the Enola Gay
exhibit was drastically rewritten. In An Exhibit Denied, Martin Harwit
once again brings his scientific method to the telling of this story, presenting
both sides of the argument and letting the facts speak for themselves.
What those facts tell us is truly disturbing. Amazon.com
Hardcover - 456 pages (October 1996)
Copernicus Books; ISBN: 0387947973
The
Atomic Bomb : Voices from Hiroshima and Nagasaki
(Japan in the Modern World)
by Kyoko Selden (Editor)
Presents the human side of the effects of nuclear holocaust as expressed
by its victims. Contains factual accounts, short stories, photographs,
poems, and drawings.
Paperback - 256 pages (April 1997)
M E Sharpe; ISBN: 087332773X
The
Citadel in Spring
by Hiroyuki Agawa, Lawrence Rogers (Translator)
Hardcover - 254 pages (January 1991)
Kodansha International; ISBN: 0870119605
The
Day Man Lost Hiroshima, 6 August 1945
by Pacific War Research Society, John Toland (Designer)
Paperback - 312 pages (September 1981)
Kodansha International; ISBN: 0870114719
Death
in Life : Survivors of Hiroshima
by Robert Jay Lifton
Paperback - 594 pages Rep edition (October 1991)
Univ of North Carolina Pr; ISBN: 080784344X
Eye-Witness
Hiroshima
by Adrian Weale (Editor)
A first-hand look at the beginning of the atomic age considers the
work of pre-war scientists, the Manhattan project, and the U.S. Air Force
raids on Japan, and reveals the Japanese experience of the bombings.
Paperback (August 1995)
Carroll & Graf; ISBN: 0786702168
Hiroshima
by John Hersey
When the atomic bomb was dropped on Hiroshima, few could have anticipated
its potential for devastation. Pulitzer prize-winning author John Hersey
recorded the stories of Hiroshima residents shortly after the explosion
and, in 1946, Hiroshima was published, giving the world first-hand accounts
from people who had survived it. The words of Miss Sasaki, Dr. Fujii, Mrs.
Nakamara, Father Kleinsorg, Dr. Sasaki, and the Reverend Tanimoto gave
a face to the statistics that saturated the media and solicited an overwhelming
public response. Whether you believe the bomb made the difference in the
war or that it should never have been dropped, "Hiroshima" is a must read
for all of us who live in the shadow of armed conflict. Amazon.com
Paperback: 152 pages
Vintage Books; ISBN: 0679721037; Reprint edition (March
1989)
Hiroshima
by John Hersey
When the atomic bomb was dropped on Hiroshima, few could have anticipated
its potential for devastation. Pulitzer prize-winning author John Hersey
recorded the stories of Hiroshima residents shortly after the explosion
and, in 1946, Hiroshima was published, giving the world first-hand accounts
from people who had survived it.
Hardcover - 196 pages Expanded edition (August 1985)
Knopf; ISBN: 0394548442 |
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Hiroshima
: Three Witnesses
by Richard H. Minear (Editor)
Paperback - 393 pages (March 1990)
Princeton Univ Pr; ISBN: 069100837X
Hiroshima
in America : A Half Century of Denial
by Robert Jay Lifton, Greg Mitchell (Contributor)
Paperback (August 1996)
Avon Books (Pap Trd); ISBN: 0380727641
Hiroshima
in History and Memory
by Michael J. Hogan (Editor)
Paperback - 238 pages (March 1996)
Cambridge Univ Pr (Pap Txt); ISBN: 0521566827
Hiroshima
and Nagasaki (Cornerstones of Freedom)
by Barbara Silberdick Feinberg, Silberdick Barbara Feinberg
Reading level: Ages 9-12
School & Library Binding - 32 pages (October 1995)
Children's Press; ISBN: 0516066277 |
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Hiroshima
and Nagasaki (New Perspectives)
by R. G. Grant
Reading level: Ages 9-12
Library Binding - 64 pages (February 1998)
Raintree/Steck Vaughn; ISBN: 0817250131
Hiroshima
Diary : The Journal of a Japanese Physician, August 6-September 30, 1945
: Fifty Years Later
by Michihiko Hachiya, Warner Wells (Editor), John W. Dower
Paperback (August 1995)
Univ of North Carolina Pr; ISBN: 0807845477
Hiroshima
No Pika
by Toshi Maruki
Book Description: August 6, 1945, 8:15 a.m. Hiroshima. Japan
A little girl and her parents are eating breakfast, and then it happened.
HIROSHIMA NO PIKA.
This book is dedicated to the fervent hope the Flash will never happen
again, anywhere.
Reading level: Young Adult
Hardcover (September 1982)
William Morrow & Company; ISBN: 0688012973 |
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Hiroshima
Notes
by Kenzaburo Oe, Yonezawa, David L. Swain (Translator)
Hardcover - 192 pages (September 1995)
Marion Boyars; ISBN: 0714530077
The
Crazy Iris and Other Stories of the Atomic Aftermath
by Kenzaburo Oe (Editor), Ivan Morris (Translator), Frederick Uleman
(Translator)
Paperback 1st Grove edition (August 1985)
Grove Press; ISBN: 0802151841
Hiroshima's
Shadow: Writings on the Denial of History and the Smithsonian Controversy
by Kai Bird (Editor), Lawrence Lifschultz (Editor), Yosuke Yamahata
(Photographer)
A compendium of articles by the likes of Albert Camus, Dwight Macdonald,
Lewis Mumford and Mary McCarthy presents both sides of the controversy
surrounding the use of the bomb against Japan. Db
Hardcover - 600 pages (May 1998)
Pamphleteers Pr; ISBN: 0963058738
Hiroshima
: Why America Dropped the Atomic Bomb
by Ronald T. Takaki
Paperback - 212 pages reprint edition (August 1996)
Little Brown & Co (Pap); ISBN: 0316831247
Letters
from the End of the World : A Firsthand Account of the Bombing of Hiroshima
by Toyofumi Ogura, Kisaburo Murakami (Translator), Shigeru Fujii (Translator)
Hardcover - 196 pages (October 1997)
Kodansha International; ISBN: 477002147X
Rain
of Ruin : A Photographic History of Hiroshima and Nagasaki
by Donald K. Goldstein, J. Michael Wenger, Katherine V. Dillon
Paperback - 192 pages (November 1999)
Brasseys Inc; ISBN: 157488221X
City of Silence : Listening to Hiroshima
by Rachelle Linner
Hardcover - 146 pages (May 1995)
Orbis Books; ISBN: 1570750149
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