BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//Sitewrench//Calendar API//EN BEGIN:VEVENT UID:2054695 DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20210308T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20210308T200000 SUMMARY:Lesley Blume DESCRIPTION:Magic City Books is proud to welcome Lesley Blume\, author of & quot\;Fallout: The Hiroshima Cover-Up and the Reporter Who Revealed it to the World\,"\; for a virtual event on Monday March 8th.\n\n"\;Fal lout"\; was Selected as one of \;Vanity Fair&lsquo\;s best books o f 2020\, was named a Publishers Weekly \;Best Nonfiction Book of 2020 and was a New York Times Book Review Editors&rsquo\; Choice. \;Lesley Blume reveals how one courageous American reporter uncovered one of the d eadliest cover-ups of the 20th century&ndash\;the true effects of the atom bomb&ndash\;potentially saving millions of lives. Released on the 75th an niversary of the Hiroshima bombing\, "\;Fallout"\; is an engrossin g detective story\, as well as an important piece of hidden history that s hows how one heroic scoop saved&ndash\;and can still save&ndash\;the world . This free event will be hosted on the Zoom Platform and Facebook Live. T o register in advance for the event on Zoom \;visit here.\n\nFallout i s currently available at Magic City Books. To purchase a copy visit Magic City Books in person or online here.\n\nAbout "\;Fallout"\; \ ;\n\nJust days after the United States decimated Hiroshima and Nagasaki wi th nuclear bombs\, the Japanese surrendered unconditionally. But even befo re the surrender\, the US government and military had begun a secret propa ganda and information suppression campaign to hide the devastating nature of these experimental weapons. The cover-up intensified as Occupation for ces closed the atomic cities to Allied reporters\, preventing leaks about the horrific long-term effects of radiation which would kill thousands du ring the months after the blast. For nearly a year the cover-up worked&nda sh\;until \;New Yorker \;journalist John Hersey got into Hiroshima and managed to report the truth to the world.\n\nAs Hersey and his editor s prepared his article for publication\, they kept the story secret&ndash\ ;even from most of their \;New Yorker \;colleagues. When the magaz ine published &ldquo\;Hiroshima&rdquo\; in August 1946\, it became an inst ant global sensation\, and inspired pervasive horror about the hellish new threat that America had unleashed. Since 1945\, no nuclear weapons have e ver 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.\n\nLesley M.M. Bl ume is a Los Angeles-based journalist\, author \;and biographer. Her w ork has appeared in \;Vanity Fair\, \;The New York Times\, \;T he Wall Street Journal and \;The Paris Review\, among many other publi cations. Her last nonfiction book\, "\;Everybody Behaves Badly\,"\ ; was a \;New York Times \;bestseller.\n LOCATION:Magic City Books URL:http://roottulsa.sitewrench.com/events/event/2054695 CREATED:20210127T100028Z DTSTAMP:20240328T120217Z X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:
Magic City Books is proud to welcome Lesley Blume\, author of "\;Fallout: The Hiroshima Cover-Up and the Reporter Who Revealed it to the World\,"\; for a virtual event on Monday March 8th.
\n\n"\;Fallout"\; was Selected as one of \;Vanity Fair&lsquo\;s best books of 2020\, was named a Publishers Weekly \;Be st Nonfiction Book of 2020 and was a New York Times Book Review Editors&rs quo\; Choice. \;Lesley Blume reveals how one courageous American repor ter uncovered one of the deadliest cover-ups of the 20th century&ndash\;th e true effects of the atom bomb&ndash\;potentially saving millions of live s. Released on the 75th anniversary of the Hiroshima bombing\, "\;Fall out"\; is an engrossing detective story\, as well as an important piec e of hidden history that shows how one heroic scoop saved&ndash\;and can s till save&ndash\;the world. This free event will be hosted on the Zoom Pla tform and Facebook Live. To register in advance for the event on Zoom  \;visit here.
\n\nFallout is currently available at Ma gic City Books. To purchase a copy visit Magic City Books in person or onl ine here< /a>.
\n\nAbout "\;Fallout"\; \;
\n\nJust 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 propaga nda 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&ndash\; until \;New Yorker \;journalist John Hersey got into Hiroshima and managed to report the truth to the world.
\n\nAs Hersey and his edi tors prepared his article for publication\, they kept the story secret&nda sh\;even from most of their \;New Yorker \;colleagues. When the ma gazine published &ldquo\;Hiroshima&rdquo\; in August 1946\, it became an i nstant global sensation\, and inspired pervasive horror about the hellish new threat that America had unleashed. Since 1945\, no nuclear weapons ha ve ever been deployed in war partly because Hersey alerted the world to th eir true\, devastating impact. This knowledge has remained among the great est deterrents to using them since the end of World War II.
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