Greg Mitchell’s books include The Beginning or the End: How Hollywood Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (The New Press) as well as The Tunnels; The Campaign of the Century, winner of the Goldsmith Book Prize and finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize; Tricky Dick and the Pink Lady, a New York Times Notable Book; So Wrong for So Long; and, with Robert Jay Lifton, Hiroshima in America and Who Owns Death? He lives in the New York City area.
Watch a wide-ranging conversation with author Greg Mitchell and filmmaker Rod Lurie about The Beginning or the End, WWII, the 75th anniversary of the atomic bomb, and more.
Read an excerpt from Greg Mitchell's The Beginning or the end, the shocking behind-the-scenes story of how the White House and Pentagon scuttled Hollywood's first a-bomb epic.