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My understanding is that they have very rarely done this; John Hersey's pulitzer prize winning article on Hiroshima was one of the few other examples of dedicat
by sdenton4 6y ago
My understanding is that they have very rarely done this; John Hersey's pulitzer prize winning article on Hiroshima was one of the few other examples of dedicating the entire magazine to a single article. So, "gravity" all the way.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hiroshima_(book) https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hiroshima_(book)
- overlordalex 6y agoFor anyone who is interested, the article is available to read online https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/1946/08/31/hiroshima https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/1946/08/31/hiroshima Here is the most recent time it was posted (5 months ago) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24101712 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24101712
- dan-robertson 6y agoThere’s also another article from 1985 by Hersey on the same people and the long-term aftermath 30 years on
- harrydehal 6y agoThank you for sharing -- last summer in August 2020, PBS Newshour also covered a new book about Hersey and 75 years from the Hiroshima bomb: https://www.pbs.org/newshour/show/the-intrepid-journalist-who-exposed-hiroshimas-horror https://www.pbs.org/newshour/show/the-intrepid-journalist-wh... And here's the book, "Fallout: The Hiroshima Cover-up and the Reporter Who Revealed It to the World" https://www.amazon.com/Fallout-Hiroshima-Cover-up-Reporter-Revealed/dp/1982128518 https://www.amazon.com/Fallout-Hiroshima-Cover-up-Reporter-R...