Thank God for the Atom Bomb and Other Essays

By: Paul Fussell

Narrated by: William Lavelle

Length: 7 hrs and 41 mins

Publisher's summary

“This is not a book to promote tranquility, and readers in quest of peace of mind should look elsewhere,” writes Paul Fussell in the foreword to this original, sharp, tart, and thoroughly engaging work. The celebrated author focuses his lethal wit on habitual euphemizers, artistically pretentious third-rate novelists, sexual puritans, and the “Disneyfiers of life”. He moves from the inflammatory title piece on the morality of dropping the bomb on Hiroshima to a hilarious disquisition on the “naturist movement”, to essays on the meaning of the Indy 500 race, on George Orwell, and on the shift in men’s chivalric impulses toward their mothers.

Fussell’s “frighteningly acute eye for the manners, mores, and cultural tastes of Americans” (The New York Times Book Review) is abundantly evident in this entertaining dissection of the enemies of truth, beauty, and justice.

©1988 Paul Fussell (P)2000 Blackstone Audio, Inc.

A really great book

A great book that I found to be developmental and maturative for a young man coming of age such as myself. I found this book to be highly relatable and generally intelligent and I further found great relation with the author in only the healthy and safe ways. I further highly recommend this book.

Finally, a realist!

The first part of the book is superb. Finally, someone who looks at things logically. The truth is we did what we did to save American Lives. Those who disagreed were the armchair generals and other elitists who had little skin in the game. This book should be a muse read in school, but I am sure the liberal teachers would never allow it.