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The Beginning or the End - How Hollywood-and America-Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (Hardcover)
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The Beginning or the End - How Hollywood-and America-Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (Hardcover)
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One of Vanity Fair's 21 Best Books of 2020 Winner, 2020 Richard
Wall Memorial Award Special Jury Prize, Theatre Library Association
The shocking and significant story of how the White House and
Pentagon scuttled an epic Hollywood production. Soon after atomic
bombs exploded over Hiroshima and Nagasaki in 1945, MGM set out to
make a movie studio chief Louis B. Mayer called "the most important
story" he would ever film: a big budget dramatization of the
Manhattan Project and the invention and use of the revolutionary
new weapon. Over at Paramount, Hal B. Wallis was ramping up his own
film version. His screenwriter: the novelist Ayn Rand, who saw in
physicist J. Robert Oppenheimer the model for a character she was
sketching for Atlas Shrugged. Greg Mitchell's The Beginning or the
End chronicles the first efforts of American media and culture to
process the Atomic Age. A movie that began as a cautionary tale
inspired by atomic scientists aiming to warn the world against a
nuclear arms race would be drained of all impact due to revisions
and retakes ordered by President Truman and the military-for
reasons of propaganda, politics, and petty human vanity (this was
Hollywood). Mitchell has found his way into the lofty rooms, from
Washington to California, where it happened, unearthing hundreds of
letters and dozens of scripts that show how wise intentions were
compromised in favor of defending the use of the bomb and the
imperatives of postwar politics. As in his acclaimed Cold War
true-life thriller The Tunnels, he exposes how our implacable
American myth-making mechanisms distort our history.
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