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3 reviews
John Hersey

Alfred A. Knopf, 1965

Once a fantasy, now closer to the truth.
I read this book over 40 years ago and have never forgotten it. As China emerges as the economic powerhouse it now is and practically owns us it is a good book to read again. When the book was written no one could even imagine China as the world power it has become. Sometimes truth is stranger than fiction.

Creating Contagious Leadership

3 reviews
John Hersey

Leaders Publishing Group, 2003

Contagious Leader
If you hope to be a leader - read this soon! If you think you are a leader - read this today! If you know you are a leader - read it NOW, because you might be surprised. Most insightful, comprehensive, but net (only a couple hours) perspective of the "true leadership" journey on the market. A must read for anyone who wants to cultivate the passion within themselves. Should be an MBA requirement ...

My Petition for More Space

2 reviews
John Hersey

Knopf, 1974

an effectively claustrophobic work
My Petition for More Space is a quiet book that effectively conveys the results of overpopulation. Hersey's greatest accomplishment in this work is the amazing creation of a claustrophobic world in which people literally cannot get away from one another. With simple, strong language, Hersey portrays this world and its suffocating influence on everyone, as seen through the eyes of the troubled ...

American Illustration 26 (American Illustration)

1 review
Marcel Dzama, Brad Holland, ...

Amilus, Inc., 2008

Great result
By purchasing this book on amazon I had it in my hot little hands before it hit the shelves here in Australia, and for two thirds of the retail price! The book arrived on time and undamaged, a great result all round.

Here to stay

1 review
John Hersey

Bantam Books, 1964

Includes the famous "Hiroshima"
This compilation of John Hersey's stories is subtitled "Studies in Human Tenacity" and includes the entire text of his famous work, "Hiroshima." Hersey tells the stoies of an "old lady marooned on a rooftop amidst floods caused by a hurricane," John Kennedy's heroism 17 years before he became President, a Jew in Auschwitz, a crippled G.I.'s reentering civilian life, the rehab of a shellshocked ...

Into the Valley

1 review
John Hersey

A. A. Knopf, 1943

A great account of a G.I. at Guadalcanal
This was a great book. It really enhanced one's respect for medics, stretcher-bearers, wire carriers (of whom I knew nothing prior to reading this), and all G.I.'s in general. I saw THE THIN RED LINE afterwards, and understood it much more than I would have been able to thanks to this book. It was excellent.

Hiroshima

1 review
John Hersey

Bantam, 1968

The horror of nuclear war by the people who experienced it
This book exposes the horrors of a nuclear weapon in a way that cannot help but move you. Hersey interviewed survivors of the American nuclear attack against Hiroshima, Japan shortly after the end of the Second World War. The interviews took place literally before the ashes were cool. Their story is one of tremendous suffering; the power of the weapon is amazing. Stories of people immediately ...

The Child Buyer

7 reviews
John Hersey

Bantam Books (Mm), 1982

For Sale: One Town's Humanity
Hersey was justly acclaimed for his fine journalist's eye that was so evident in his Hiroshima and A Bell for Adano. But his scathing social commentary of White Lotus and this book probably have not received the attention they deserve, perhaps because of the fantastic, science-fictional feel of their portrayed worlds. Told strictly as the minutes of a state congressional hearing, this book ...

Hiroshima

1 review
John Hersey

Knopf Publishing Group, 1946

A Very Different Story
One great thing about this book is that it was written just one year after the bombing, so thoughts and opinions were fresh. Another good thing is that it is written from the eye witness accounts of several of its' victims. We may never understand the complete impact of the first time an atomic bomb was used on a civilian populace, but this small book might help.

The Call

3 reviews
John Hersey

Penguin (Non-Classics), 1986

Long, long story about a China missionary
I love this novel. It's a panorama of life in China as seen by an American missionary from 1906 until the 1950s. The author was the son of a China missionary and most of the events in the book are historical -- althought the main character, Treadup, is fictional -- a composite of sorts for all the missionaries in China. "The Call" achieves a feeling of absolute authenticity. This is ...

Blues

12 reviews
John Hersey

Knopf, 1987

A celebration of life and nature
John Hersey's book is a treasure. It is conceived as a series of conversations between an accomplished fisherman and a stranger, who, in the beginning at least, is predisposed to dislike fishing as a brutal pastime. But Hersey, page by page, chapter by chapter, lures the stranger (and the reader) into the deep mysteries of the sea and the complex world of ocean life that so many of us take for ...

A Bell for Adano

24 reviews
John Hersey

Demco Media, 1988

Great Read
I read this back in High School in the sixties. I recently saw the movie and remarked how I did not remember much of anything about it, so I got the book and read it. It is an easy read and quite entertaining. The movie is excellent but the book is outstanding. It is charming, warm and real. It demonstrates that in this world we have bureaucrats and politicians out for themselves (like Gen. ...

Van Gogh's House: A Pop-Up Carousel

2 reviews
John Leighton, Bob Hersey

Universe Publishing, 1998

Entertaining for children and adults
This book is quite charming. As reported in a previous review, the little package one receives is approximately 4" by 5". A pocket on one side contains six punch-out characters, a few punch-out items (incl. vases of flowers, pictures and a pitcher) to be placed in the rooms, and a 32-page booklet about Van Gogh and his paintings. The other side contains the pop-up book, which one opens ...

White Lotus

13 reviews
John Hersey

Bantam Books, 1981

A new visit to an old friend
I first read White Lotus by John Hersey when it was published in 1965, when the civil rights movement was a very hot topic, and I was just 17, an age when social (in)justice seems to be the only thing worth fighting for. At the time, I thought it was a truly excellent book. So I decided to read it again, here in my old age, just to see if my youthful evaluation would hold up. First off, I'm not ...

The Conspiracy

2 reviews
John Hersey

Random House, 1972

Continues Hersey's fine journalistic skills. . .
in fictional form. This book is a thinly-disguised description of the Nixon presidency **preceding, and anticipating!** Watergate's paranoia.

Hiroshima (Bantam classic)

197 reviews
John Hersey

Bantam Books, 1959

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The Wall

16 reviews
John Hersey

Vintage, 1988

This story sticks to your bones
You can read the other reviews to get an idea as to what the story covers, but I want to share with you my experience as to the impact of its delivery and tale. I read a lot. And it's rare for a book to make me laugh out loud or cry tears. At first, I neither liked nor cared for any of the characters. At the end, I cried; hard. I've never had a story affect me this way.

Let Us Now Praise Famous Men

22 reviews
James Agee

Mariner Books, 1989

A timeless classic...
James Agee's painstaking and honest masterpiece is an exercise in empathy. It is a beautiful, tortured writing that speaks to both the deplorable conditions of the Depression-era souther sharecropper and the humanity of trying to present them in a favorable light. Agee's writing style is at times erratic-- which helps to give the book its character. It is often self-doubting, as Agee calls ...

A Single Pebble

12 reviews
John Hersey

Bantam Books (Mm), 1982

Revisiting A Single Pebble
Although published almost 50 years ago, this book deserves another look using a modern, critical lens. Overshadowed by Hersey's other works, specifically Hiroshima and A Bell for Adano, A Single Pebble offers a great deal to the reader. The book is far more than a fictionalized travelogue of a trip up the Yangtse River. It is a work that documents exposure to the acts and ideas of another ...

A Single Pebble

1 review
John Hersey

Alfred A. Knopf, 1966

classic; beautiful
An incredibly simple, moving , not-to-ever-be -forgotten gem Read it after a 5 day (pre-dam) trip up the Yangtze on recomendation of a travel book. So aposite; it is about the laborer's life on the river. Like Buck,the simplicity of the language captures the simplicity of the thought process of the peasant. It is also an eduction in the dark, noir,beautiful past of the river. ...

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