HERSEY, John. [Gerald and Betty Ford].
Hiroshima.
New York: Alfred A. Knopf , 1946.
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"With many thanks and with high hopes for the future": First Edition of Hiroshima; Inscribed by John Hersey to President and First Lady Gerald Ford
First edition of Hersey's classic work, which has sold over three million copies. Octavo, original cloth. Association copy, inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper, "For President and Mrs. Ford - with many thanks and with high hopes for the future. John Hersey March 14, 1975." The recipient, Gerald R. Ford was the 38th President of the United States, serving from 1974 to 1977. He assumed office following the Watergate scandal and sought to restore public trust in government through a message of transparency and national healing. Fine in a near fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Andy Carpenter. From the collection of President Gerald R. Ford and First Lady Betty Ford. Hersey's account of the aftermath of the atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima, Japan, was judged the finest piece of American journalism of the 20th century by a 36-member panel associated with New York University's journalism department. Near fine in a near fine price-clipped dust jacket. Jacket design by Warren Chappell. Housed in a custom half morocco chemise and clamshell box. An exceptional association.
Hiroshima is a book by Pulitzer Prize-winning author John Hersey. It tells the stories of six survivors of the atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima, covering a period of time immediately prior to and one year after the atomic bomb was dropped on August 6, 1945. "The quietest and the best of all the stories that have been written about the most spectacular explosion in the time of man" (New York Times Book Review). "John Hersey once described himself as a novelist of contemporary history In 1946 he visited Hiroshima, interviewed survivors of the first atomic bomb attack, and published the New Yorker article which changed him profoundly. In Hiroshima Hersey drew from the victims themselves the understanding of history that had eluded him as a war correspondent. The six Hiroshima residents told him how they had lived before the bomb struck, why they were not killed, and precisely how illness, exhaustion, and personal sorrow had qualified their survival" (Contemporary Novelists, 634).
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