Protests Rock Death Penalty in USA -- As My New Book Arrives

As protests against the death penalty expand,  following the execution of Troy Davis in Georgia,  I'd like to point readers to my  new e-book (also for all phones), just out this week,  Dead Reckoning:  Executions in America. 

It's my second take on this subject, following the major book I co-wrote with Robert Jay Lifton eleven years ago, Who Owns Death?   The new book probes the issue,  from noose to  needle and,  thanks to the wonders of modern e-publishing, it carries right through to the past week  (the Troy Davis case and beyond).  And it predicts the end of capital punishment in America.  Beyond my own views, it includes commentary by abolitionists ranging from Charles Dickens and Mark Twain to Albert Camus and Christopher Hitchens -- and Steve Earle.

I'd like to think it is "must-reading" for anti-death penalty activists and others just now getting interested in this subject, as it raises an array of relevant issues for 2011 and beyond.  Thanks to the wonders of modern publishing, the book is  updated to just a few days ago.

You can read more about it or order the e-book (for just $2.99)  at Amazon.  It works with Kindle, but also with all phones, blackberrys, PCs and Macs (in other words, no Kindle needed).     Twitter:  @GregMitch.  My email: epic1934@aol.com.

My New Book 'Atomic Cover-up' Reveals Film Secrets

Just out this month, my 12th book:   Atomic Cover-Up:  Two U.S. Soldiers, Hiroshima & Nagasaki and The Greatest Movie Never Made (Sinclair Books).  This is a haunting account of how the U.S.  suppressed the only film footage shot in the atomic cities,  by an American military crew,  for decades.  The shocking cover-up even extended to MGM and Hollywood -- and to President Truman.  And there was no WikiLeaks to get the film aired.

America's "nuclear entrapment" continues to this day.  Atomic Cover-up  takes a wide angle look at the use of the bomb in 1945--and its impact right up to 2011.  It might be sub-titled "From Hiroshima to Fukushima."

You can buy the e-book edition for Kindle, all phones, Blackberry,  iPad, Macs and PCs (for just $3.99) via Amazon, and you do not need a Kindle.  Print edition also now available via Amazon.


David Friend of Vanity Fair calls it "a new work of revelatory scholarship and insight by Greg Mitchell that will speak to all of those concerned about the lessons of the nuclear age."

Watch the controversial two-minute trailer for the book below or at YouTube  --  it includes some of the hidden footage shot by the U.S. military crew.  (It now has over 80,000 views.)   CBS News just picked up my Hiroshima/Fukushima piece here.   I was on Democracy Now! on August 9, now you can  watch.   A lengthy piece summarizes key parts of the book at The Nation, where I am a daily writer.   Major piece on Nagasaki, the "forgotten city," getting wide play.    

And don't miss the wild Hollywood angle -- when the Truman White House censored the first major movie about The Bomb, from MGM, and even got the actor playing Truman fired!   Atomic Cover-Up also charts my own visits to Hiroshima and Nagasaki and latest news and views right up to this summer.

Why did the cover-up of the film footage matter?  While Americans were denied important truths about The Bomb -- filmed by their own military -- a costly nuclear arms race ensued, nuclear power became entrenched, and millions of Americans were exposed to dangerous levels of radiation in our own country.

Order print edition  or e-book editions for most devices.   Email me at:  epic1934@aol.com.   The video trailer below: