{"product_id":"mr-straight-arrow-jeremy-treglown-9781250251244","title":"Mr. Straight Arrow: The Career of John Hersey, Author of Hiroshima","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA monumental reevaluation of the career of John Hersey, the author of \u003ci\u003eHiroshima\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eFew are the books with as immediate an impact and as enduring a legacy as John Hersey's \u003ci\u003eHiroshima\u003c\/i\u003e. First published as an entire issue of \u003ci\u003eThe New Yorker \u003c\/i\u003ein 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? \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn \u003ci\u003eMr. Straight Arrow\u003c\/i\u003e, Jeremy Treglown answers that question and shows that\u003ci\u003e Hiroshima \u003c\/i\u003ewas not an aberration but was emblematic of the author's lifework. By the time of \u003ci\u003eHiroshima\u003c\/i\u003e'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 expos s of the Detroit riots resonate all too loudly today. But his obsessive doubts over the value of his work never ceased. \u003ci\u003eMr. Straight Arrow \u003c\/i\u003eis 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Jeremy Treglown\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1250251249\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781250251244\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Picador USA\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 04\/28\/2020\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 384\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.00lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.60h x 5.70w x 1.10d","brand":"Jeremy Treglown","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":44072654635263,"sku":"9781250251244","price":23.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_7b8e8535-81dc-45fb-bab0-e8b5c07c4611.jpg?v=1685443237","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/mr-straight-arrow-jeremy-treglown-9781250251244","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}