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‘Fallout: The Hiroshima Cover-Up and the Reporter Who Revealed It to the World’
Thursday, September 30, 2021
4 p.m. – 5:30 p.m. PT
Online
Join us for a look at how reporter/author John Hersey uncovered the story of the Hiroshima bombing. His account was published in The New Yorker in 1946.
Panelists:
- Lesly M. M. Blume: Author of Fallout and a Los Angeles-based journalist, author, and biographer. Her work has appeared in Vanity Fair, The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, and The Paris Review, among many other publications. Her last nonfiction book, Everybody Behaves Badly, was a New York Times bestseller.
- Eric Schlosser: An American author known for his investigative journalism. His books include Fast Food Nation; Reefer Madness; and Command and Control: Nuclear Weapons, the Damascus Accident, and the Illusion of Safety, which was a finalist for a 2014 Pulitzer Prize.