Pressing Issues

Greg Mitchell on media, politics, film, music, TV, comedy and more. "Not here, not here the darkness, in this twittering world." -- T.S. Eliot

New book (July 2020)--Click Cover Below to Order!

On the 1947 MGM epic that was twisted by the Truman White House and military into pro-nuclear propaganda. Already hailed by leading writers and Publishers Weekly. Click cover above for more or to order..

"Atomic Cover-up": Shocking suppression of U.S. film

How U.S. buried for decades the key footage from Hiroshima shot by the U.S. military. Click on cover above for my popular book and e-book.

Award-Winning 'Campaign of the Century''

"Upton Sinclair's Race for Governor of California--and the Birth of Media Politics": Amazingly influential and wild 1934 race with great relevance for today. Recently picked in the Wall St. Journal as one of the five greatest books on an election ever.. Click on cover to order..

Recent Bestseller

It's a thrilling history of escape tunnels--under the Berlin Wall--and JFK's attempt to suppress NBC and CBS films about them at the height of the Cold War.. Hailed by The New York Times Book Review, Bill Moyers, and Frederick Forsyth, among others, and feaured by NPR"s Scott Simon. Movie in a works. "A fascinating and complex picture of the interplay between politics and media in the Cold War era.” -- Washington Post.

New Edition of Our Beethoven Book!

G.M.'s book w/ Kerry Candaele, a tie-in to our new acclaimed film. E-book and print.

My Book on the Bomb with Robert Jay Lifton

Acclaimed book on nuclear culture, and political and psychological fallout in the USA. Written with Robert Jay Lifton. Click on cover to read more or order.