With the Bark Off: Conversations on the American Presidency

“They were peddling a story to the American public,” A Conversation with Dr. Don Carleton

Episode Summary

Dr. Don Carleton discusses Flash of Light, Wall of Fire, a new book of rarely seen photographs documenting the horrific human toll of the atomic bombs dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki to end World War II.

Episode Notes

Dr. Don Carleton is founder and executive director of the Dolph Briscoe Center for American History at The University of Texas at Austin, an archive documenting key themes in U.S. and world history. The Briscoe Center’s new book, Flash of Light, Wall of Fire, provides little seen photographic documentation of the horrific human toll of the atomic bombs dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki to end World War II.

 

Copies of Flash of Light, Wall of Fire are available for sale from The Store at LBJ.