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Greg Mitchell (1) (1947–)

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Greg Mitchell is the author of Tricky Dick and the Pink Lady, Why Obama Won, So Wrong for So Long and, with Robert Jay Lifton, Hiroshima in America and Who Owns Death, among other books. He is the former editor of Editor Publisher magazine and now writes the popular Media Fix blog for The Nation.

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1947
Sukupuoli
male
Kansalaisuus
Etats-Unis
Syntymäpaikka
New York, Etats-Unis

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This book is a look at historical myth making. The book is about a movie made with the title "Beginning or the End" in 1946 and 1947. The movie started out to be a truthful look at the making of the atomic bomb and the results of that bomb. The scientist who proposed the movie wanted it to be a grand warning statement about the ethics of using that bomb. Instead, the movie turned into a propaganda device that hoodwinked people of all ilk's into believing a false history. This book is the story of the making of the movie and who influenced the final picture, who made the decisions to falsify history, and who wanted history to view them as historic. It is basically a book about propaganda and the failure to tell the truth about the bomb and why it was even used. It is a fascinating look at how mythical history starts and gets embedded into the minds of the vast majority of people.… (lisätietoja)
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benitastrnad | 2 muuta kirja-arvostelua | Feb 1, 2023 |
Interesting - lots of info I did not know about the many attempted escapes from East Berlin, as well as a look at the pressures on the press in the heart of the Cold War
 
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PattyLee | 26 muuta kirja-arvostelua | Dec 14, 2021 |
This book shows just how absurd the desire the government was driven to shape culture in support of something so wantonly violent. The absolute bureaucratic nightmare with trying to be somewhat truthful while maintaining a veneer of lies, helping make the entire thing palatable to the public. Deranged and the stuff that we don't really hear about in school.
 
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garrettjansen | 2 muuta kirja-arvostelua | Mar 27, 2021 |
The Beginning or the End: How Hollywood--and America--Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb by Greg Mitchell is a fascinating read. Whether you like history or film history, or both, this book will satisfy.

In what was initially supposed to be a movie warning the citizenry about weaponizing atomic energy and starting an arms race we watch as it becomes a propaganda film that is far more fiction than nonfiction and serves to glorify what was a despicable act. As has come to light, the US government was in possession of Japanese telegrams and intelligence that showed that Japan was working on a surrender and was not planning further offenses. But making a political statement both domestically and to the Soviets was deemed more important than hundreds of thousands of lives, mostly women and children. Not much different from the current US government views on lives of others.

This book reads almost like a novel which leads a reader to potentially read it too fast. I would recommend slowing down and spreading it out over a couple of days so you can enjoy the details and also think about what the government intervention says about truth and democracy.

Reviewed from a copy made available by the publisher via NetGalley.
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pomo58 | 2 muuta kirja-arvostelua | Jun 1, 2020 |

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Susan Braudy Contributor
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Paul Krassner Contributor
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