The Beginning or the End: How Hollywood--And America--Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb

by Greg Mitchell

Book Overview

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

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1620975734
• ISBN13: 9781620975732
• Release Date: July 2020
• Publisher: New Press
• Length: 272 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 5.7" x 8.6"