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Why is it in the entry?68.173.91.55 (talk) 23:10, 13 July 2011 (UTC)SLY111
Adds to the bibliography, White Lotus and "The Conspiracy". (Although dealing with issues that are fading into our history, White Lotus, in my opnion, is one of the finest cultural melanges I've ever encountered.) TimBovee 14:10, 18 Jul 2004 (UTC)
Hersey also wrote "A Single Pebble"in 1956, a short novel about an American engineer who travels up the Yangtze Riverin the early 1920's to scout for sites to dam the river. Currently published by Vintage.
The book, Hiroshima, lists his birthplace as Tientsin.
A high school in prospect HIeghts, Illionis is named after him. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 67.184.95.226 (talk) 22:52, 16 April 2007 (UTC).
I'm changing this sentence in the "Early Life" section: "The article, which tells the story of six victims of the bombing, ran in its entirety in a single issue of The New Yorker, a precedent for the magazine." Here's why:
1) It doesn't say what it's trying to say. It says the entire article appeared in a single issue, which is no big deal. What's unique about this article is that it was the only article in that issue.
2) The word "precedent" isn't used right. A precedent is an example that gets followed in similar circumstances. Hiroshima didn't set a precedent. It was never done again. I'm changing the sentence to this: "The article, which tells the story of six victims of the bombing, took up the entire issue, which the New Yorker had never done before, nor since." —MiguelMunoz (talk) 23:48, 4 February 2009 (UTC)
Good points. I have rewritten just a bit but incorporated your revisions. Regards, MarmadukePercy (talk) 00:16, 5 February 2009 (UTC)
Why is this here? This is definitely not proper format.Fdssdf (talk) 19:00, 6 May 2009 (UTC)
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@Ɱ:, I did what I could to search online through the first (Dee) and third (Weingarten) cited sources, but was not able to find anything to substantiate the claim that Hersey was an Eagle Scout. I don't have access to the second source (Cheever). If you have access to physical copies of Cheever and Weingarten (or a complete digital copy of Weingarten), perhaps you could add relevant quotes to the references using the |quote=
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: CS1 maint: date format (link)I looked for other online sources including obituaries and the bio that the US Postal Service published when the created a stamp in his honor,[1] but none of the sources I found mentioned him even being in the Boy Scouts. I did see in the Dee interview that Hersey mentions Ernest Thompson Seton, who was a pioneer in the Scouting movement, including the Boy Scouts of America, but he just mentions him in passing.
Thanks. – Archer1234 (talk) 02:53, 28 August 2019 (UTC)
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There’s no information about several of the books in the “works” section of the article, for example, Too Far to Walk. Is there any information about the book that could or should be mentioned? I’m reading the mentioned book myself, but I don’t think I could write a whole wikipedia article about it. 12.86.245.70 (talk) 18:15, 29 September 2023 (UTC)