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Treglown, Jeremy.
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Hersey, John, 1914-1993.
Authors, American -- Biography.
Journalists -- United States -- Biography.
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Treglown, Jeremy.
Hersey, John, 1914-1993.
Authors, American -- Biography.
Journalists -- United States -- Biography.
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Mr
.
Straight
Arrow
: the
career
of
John
Hersey
,
author
of
Hiroshima
/ Jeremy Treglown.
by
Treglown, Jeremy.
Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2019.
Call #:
813.52 T786m
Subjects
Hersey
,
John
, 1914-1993.
Authors, American -- Biography.
Journalists -- United States -- Biography.
ISBN:
9780374280260 (hc.)
Alternate title:
Mister
Straight
Arrow
: the
career
of
John
Hersey
,
author
of
Hiroshima
Edition:
1st ed.
Description:
xi, 366 p. ; 24 cm.
Bibliography:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 299-341) and index.
Contents:
Preface: civic virtue and our present difficulties -- A sentimental journey -- To be a
Hersey
-- On top of the hill -- Getting hurt getting through -- Tu Lu-Men, Chu Chi-Erh, and Shi-Taling -- Pyramid, sun, and cube -- Listening to the dead --
Mr
.
straight
arrow
-- Those breakthroughs I yearn for -- The master -- Sweet land of liberty -- A kind of daylight in the mind.
Summary:
"Few are the books with as immediate an impact and as enduring a legacy as
John
Hersey’s
Hiroshima
. First published as an entire issue of The New Yorker in 1946, it was serialized in newspapers the world over and has never gone out of print. By conveying plainly the experiences of six survivors of the 1945 atomic bombing and its aftermath,
Hersey
brought to light the magnitude of nuclear war. And in his adoption of novelistic techniques, he prefigured the conventions of New Journalism. But how did Hersey—who was not Japanese, not an eyewitness, not a scientist—come to be the first person to communicate the experience to a global audience? In
Mr
.
Straight
Arrow
, Jeremy Treglown answers that question and shows that
Hiroshima
was not an aberration but was emblematic of the author’s lifework. By the time of Hiroshima’s publication,
Hersey
was already a famed war writer and had won a Pulitzer Prize for Fiction. He continued to publish journalism of immediate and pressing moral concern; his reporting from the Freedom Summer and his exposés of the Detroit riots resonate all too loudly today. But his obsessive doubts over the value of his work never ceased.
Mr
.
Straight
Arrow
is an intimate, exacting study of the achievements and contradictions of Hersey’s
career
, which reveals the powers of a writer tirelessly committed to truth and social change."--From publisher.
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