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Masson v. New Yorker goes to trial -- Literary journalism and the New Yorker -- The historical origins of the Masson-Malcolm dispute -- Libel at the New Yorker -- Masson v. New Yorker in the early years -- Libel law and the postmodern dilemma : the search for truth -- The end of the line for Masson

By exploring the production, publication, and circulation of John Hersey's "Hiroshima" in America in 1946, this study demonstrates how a landmark work of journalism traveled the breadth of the American media system, fueled more by an ethos of community building and citizenship than of commercial gain. In the case of the publication of "Hiroshima," individuals and institutions in the American media system largely disregarded commercial imperatives to provide as many Americans as possible with vital information and a forum for debate about unsettling moral, political, and social realities of atomic warfare and the new atomic age.