Episode 302-Interview with Lesley Blume about her book: Fallout
The History of WWII Podcast
Ray Harris Jr
4.4 • 4.6K Ratings
🗓️ 3 October 2020
⏱️ 59 minutes
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| 0:55.0 | Hello and thank you for listening to the history of World War II podcast. |
| 1:06.0 | Episode 302, interview with Leslie Bloom about her book Fallout, The Hiroshima Cover Up and the reporter who revealed it to the world. |
| 1:18.0 | Leslie M. M. Bloom is an award-winning journalist, historian and New York Times best-selling author. |
| 1:24.0 | Her work has appeared in Vanity Fair, The New York Times, National Geographic, The Wall Street Journal, and The Paris Review Daily, among other publications. |
| 1:35.0 | Some of her books include Everybody Behaves Badly, It Happened Here, and Let's Bring Back. |
| 1:42.0 | Today we will cover the Truman Administration's attempt to cover up the true extent and nature of the two atomic bombs. |
| 1:50.0 | And Leslie, thank you very much for being with us today. |
| 1:53.0 | Thanks so much for having me on and for picking Fallout as a subject. |
| 1:57.0 | Absolutely. Now, before we get into your book, I just have to say this, and we kind of cover this a little bit in the emails back and forth a couple of weeks ago. |
| 2:05.0 | But I was, I bought your audiobook. I appreciate the publisher sending me a copy, but I love audiobooks. |
| 2:11.0 | I was listening to the audiobook on my front porch, and I'm just, it's a very pleasant view. It's a, it's a beautiful night. |
| 2:16.0 | And I'm listening to the introduction. And after that introduction ended, I literally hit pause, and I had to stop listening to the book for the next two days. |
| 2:27.0 | There was so much information in that introduction, and to be honest with you, what the way you presented it made my blood freeze about, you know, any future work that we might have. |
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