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Authors, Writers American History & Politics World War II
  • William Craig

    William Craig talks to Studs Terkel

    William Craig discusses his book "The Fall of Japan: The Final Weeks of World War II In the Pacific." He speaks mostly on the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Includes several excerpts from the book.

  • Walter Schneir talks with Studs Terkel Part 2

    1970
  • Walter Schneir talks with Studs Terkel Part 1

    1970
  • Schindler's List

    Thomas Keneally discusses the book "Schindler's List"

    Nov. 12, 1982

    Thomas Keneally discusses the book "Schindler's List," detailing the actions of Oskar Schindler saving Jews during WWII.

  • Paul Boyer discusses his book "By the Bomb's Early Light"

    Jan. 9, 1986

    In the book, "By the Bomb's Early Light: American Thought and Culture at the Dawn of the Atomic Age," Paul Boyer covers people's feelings and attitudes after the bomb was dropped in Hiroshima. Boyer admits he, himself, when he was a young boy, he sent away for a free atomic ring that was being advertised. The program includes an excerpt of David Lilienthal talking.

  • Interview with Fred Freed discussing the atom bomb

  • Discussing the book "The Splendid Blond Beast: Money, Law, and Genocide in the Twentieth Century" with the author, historian and journalist Christopher Simpson

    Mar. 9, 1993
  • Discussing the book "The Abandonment of the Jews: America and the Holocaust, 1941-1945" with author, historian David Wyman

    May. 7, 1985
  • Discussing the book "Solidarity and Treason: Resistance and Exile, 1933-1940" with the author Lisa Fittko

    Jan. 28, 1993
  • Discussing the book "Repairing America: An Account of the Movement for Japanese-American Redress" with author William Hohri and Yuriko Hohri

    Dec. 15, 1988
  • Discussing the book "One Sunny Day: A Child's Memory of Hiroshima" with the author Hideko Tamura Snider

    Oct. 21, 1997
  • Art Spiegelman

    Discussing the book "Maus: Survivor's Tale" with the artist and author Art Spiegelman

    Oct. 1, 1986
  • Discussing the book "Jerzy Kosinski: A Biography" with the author James Park Sloan

    Apr. 2, 1996
  • Discussing the book "Ernie's War: The Best of Ernie Pyle's World War II Dispatches" with David Nichols

    Sep. 30, 1986
  • Discussing Atomic diplomacy: Hiroshima and Potsdam; the use of the atomic bomb and the American confrontation with Soviet power with Gar Alperovitz

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