The Dropping of the Bomb

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The paper provides a book review of "Hiroshima" by John Hersey, an account of the dropping of the atomic bomb on Hiroshima in 1945 from the point of view of six survivors who had no idea at the time what had happened. The paper discusses how the book first appeared in a different form in "The New Yorker" as a long article and the publication was made all the more important by the fact that this was the first time the magazine had ever devoted an entire issue to one story.

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"John Hersey's book "Hiroshima" was a major event in itself when it was published a year after the actual events of the dropping of the bomb on Hiroshima and the end of World War II. The book first appeared in a different form in "The New Yorker" as a long article, and the publication was made all the more important by the fact that this was the first time the magazine had ever devoted an entire issue to one story. The book had much the same effect on journalism that "In Cold Blood" by Truman Capote would have almost two decades later, in effect creating a new form of reporting. The book is observational and reports on the reactions of the six people profiled, six people who survived the bomb and its aftermath and who tell the story to Hersey."

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