{"product_id":"mr-straight-arrow-the-career-of-john-hersey-author-of-hiroshima-jeremy-treglown","title":"Mr. Straight Arrow: The Career of John Hersey, Author of Hiroshima - Jeremy Treglown","description":"\u003cp class=\"product-keynote\" data-v-0817d5f5=\"\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003eA monumental reevaluation of the career of John Hersey, the author of\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\"\u003eHiroshima\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFew are the books with as immediate an impact and as enduring a legacy as John Hersey’s \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eHiroshima\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e. First published as an entire issue of \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eThe New Yorker\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\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?\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eMr. Straight Arrow\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e, Jeremy Treglown answers that question and shows that\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003eHiroshima\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003ewas not an aberration but was emblematic of the author’s lifework. By the time of \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eHiroshima\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\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 exposés of the Detroit riots resonate all too loudly today. But his obsessive doubts over the value of his work never ceased. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eMr. Straight Arrow\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\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.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"product-keynote\" data-v-0817d5f5=\"\"\u003e\u003cspan mce-data-marked=\"1\"\u003eHardback\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"c-book-details__desc is-short\"\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"EmmasatOxford","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43594134061210,"sku":"","price":30.0,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0013\/9024\/8009\/files\/hersey.jpg?v=1684970567","url":"https:\/\/emmasatoxford.pro\/products\/mr-straight-arrow-the-career-of-john-hersey-author-of-hiroshima-jeremy-treglown","provider":"EmmasatOxford","version":"1.0","type":"link"}