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An exhibit denied : lobbying the history of Enola Gay Cover Image Book Book

An exhibit denied : lobbying the history of Enola Gay

Harwit, Martin 1931- (Author).

Summary: A national frenzy, fanned by lobbyists and the media, thwarted the Smithsonian Air and Space Museum's attempt to mount an exhibition featuring the Enola Gay, the B-29 bomber that had dropped the atomic bomb on Hiroshima. Martin Harwit, the director of the museum at the time, recounts the decade-long effort to restore the Enola Gay, the largest restoration project ever undertaken by the museum; recalls the help and support initially provided by General Tibbets and a small.

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  • ISBN: 0387947973 (hardcover : alk. paper)
  • ISBN: 9780387947976 (hardcover : alk. paper)
  • Physical Description: print
    xxv, 477 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm.
  • Publisher: New York, NY : Copernicus, c1996.

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Bibliography, etc. Note: Includes bibliographical references (p. 435-468) and index.

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Subject: Enola Gay (Bomber) Exhibitions Political aspects
National Air and Space Museum Exhibitions Political aspects
Hiroshima-shi (Japan) History Bombardment, 1945 Exhibitions
World War, 1939-1945 Japan Hiroshima-shi
Atomic bomb Moral and ethical aspects
United States Military policy Moral and ethical aspects
Public history

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Lummi Library D 767.25 .H5 H37 1996 283554 Stacks Reshelving -
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