The Beginning Or The End How Hollywoodand Americalearned To Stop Worrying And Love The Bomb Greg Mitchell by Greg Mitchell 9781620975732, 1620975734 instant download after payment.

The shocking and significant story of how the White House and Pentagon scuttled an epic Hollywood production.

“Greg Mitchell is the best kind of historian, a true storyteller.”
—Kai Bird, Pulitzer Prize–winning author of American Prometheus: The Triumph and Tragedy of J. Robert Oppenheimer

Winner, 2020 Richard Wall Memorial Award Special Jury Prize, Theatre Library Association
One of Vanity Fair’s 21 Best Books of 2020

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).