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Aug 06, 1996 | ISBN 9780679762850 Buy
Dec 29, 2010 | ISBN 9780307773128 Buy
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Aug 06, 1996 | ISBN 9780679762850
Dec 29, 2010 | ISBN 9780307773128
With a new preface by the authorControversial in nature, this book demonstrates that the United States did not need to use the atomic bomb against Japan. Alperovitz criticizes one of the most hotly debated precursory events to the Cold War, an event that was largely responsible for the evolution of post-World War II American politics and culture.
Gar Alperovitz, author of What Then Must We Do? Straight Talk About the Next American Revolution and The Decision to Use the Atomic Bomb, is the Lionel R. Bauman Professor of Political Economy at the University of Maryland, College Park. He… More about Gar Alperovitz
“A massively detailed yet fascinating and readable work of scholarship.”–San Francisco Chronicle
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