Companies as a Public Service and brought you today, your television provider. Up next, the Manhattan Project is a subject of a lecture by George Mason University history professor Martin Sherman is the author of a world destroyed, harris she met and its like a cease and a coauthor of a pulitzer winner, mr. Sherman details the development of the atomic bomb, beginning with the discovery efficient in 1938 through the use of atomic bombs in cities like kawasaki and hershey. The event was hosted in washington d. C. It is just under two hours. Our speaker tonight is martin sure. When hes the professor at the history at martin mason. Hes also the author of a world destroyed, the atomic bomb and the world, alliance which won the historic foreign relations, as well as the american book prize. It was a 1975 finalist for it is subtitled hiroshima and its legacies. Hes held appointments at the cardoza fund, visiting as this thing professor at American History at Yale University and as the burnet
American Foreign Relations as well as the American History book prize. It was a 1976 finalist for both the nationalist book award and the Pulitzer Prize and the current paper back edition of a world destroyed is subtitled hiroshima and its legacies. Visiting as the fund visiting professor of American History. And is a visiting professor at wellesley college. Hes taught at uc berkeley and the university of pennsylvania. Hes received fellowships from the Macarthur Guggenheim sloan and rockefeller foundations and the National Endowment for the humanities. He was a visiting scholar at the institute for the advanced stud and the Woodrow Wilson National Center for scholars. In 2007, he was inducted into the American Academy of arts and sciences. So please join me now in a warm welcome for professor martin sherwin. [ applause ] okay, thank you, ruth. My mother wrote that int introducti introduction. I hope you liked it. It was more folsom because my father didnt get a chance to edit it. Im re
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contract. for it was a very unsettling moment for me. just recently reunited with a man that took me to launch. clif miller. he looked into his ice he is not going to do this. you re always flattered when some one in the white house want you to serve in an important role. my family were not nixon people. to put it mildly. but at the same time, i had covered him. i knew that he had extraordinary political skills. he was a very complicated man in so many ways but the idea of going to work for him never, ever, faintly passed across my consciousness and i was in, i wouldn t say i was in a state of terror but i was in some anxiety. this is something i didn t want to get out. i was starting my career as political reporter. i didn t want people to think i was a nixon person or kennedy person or johnson person. i went back to nbc after the pitch had been made and said you got to get me out of this. julian good man, head of nbc, was soming down from the might house. he went to bob hal
it was a very unsettling moment for me. i actually just recently reunited with the man who took me to lunch and made the offer. who was that? guest: his name was cliff miller. he looked into his ice he is not going to do this. you re always flattered when some one in the white house want you to serve in an important role. my family were not nixon people. to put it mildly. but at the same time, i had covered him. i knew that he had extraordinary political skills. he was a very complicated man in so many ways but the idea of going to work for him never, ever, faintly passed across my consciousness and i was in, i wouldn t say i was in a state of terror but i was in some anxiety. this is something i didn t want to get out. i was starting my career as political reporter. i didn t want people to think i was a nixon person or kennedy person or johnson person. i went back to nbc after the pitch had been made and said you got to get me out of this. julian good man, head of nbc, w