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- catalog abstract "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. Band of men he had commanded on the atomic missions to Hiroshima and Nagasaki; shows how a handful of World War II veterans became disillusioned and began to oppose the museum's display of the aircraft; and describes how these men succeeded in calling on powerful veterans' organizations, aerospace lobbyists and congressmen for help in their cause. All the while, a separate drama was unfolding in Japan, where the prospects of an exhibition of the Enola Gay, in a national. Museum in the heart of Washington, raised an entirely different set of concerns.".
- catalog contributor b9516943.
- catalog coverage "Hiroshima-shi (Japan) History Bombardment, 1945 Exhibitions.".
- catalog coverage "United States Military policy Moral and ethical aspects.".
- catalog coverage "United States Politics and government 1993-2001.".
- catalog created "1996.".
- catalog date "1996".
- catalog date "1996.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "1996.".
- catalog description "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.".
- catalog description "Band of men he had commanded on the atomic missions to Hiroshima and Nagasaki; shows how a handful of World War II veterans became disillusioned and began to oppose the museum's display of the aircraft; and describes how these men succeeded in calling on powerful veterans' organizations, aerospace lobbyists and congressmen for help in their cause. All the while, a separate drama was unfolding in Japan, where the prospects of an exhibition of the Enola Gay, in a national.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references (p. 435-468) and index.".
- catalog description "Museum in the heart of Washington, raised an entirely different set of concerns.".
- catalog extent "xxv, 477 p. :".
- catalog hasFormat "Exhibit denied.".
- catalog identifier "0387947973 (hardcover : alk. paper)".
- catalog isFormatOf "Exhibit denied.".
- catalog issued "1996".
- catalog issued "1996.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "New York, NY : Copernicus,".
- catalog relation "Exhibit denied.".
- catalog spatial "Hiroshima-shi (Japan) History Bombardment, 1945 Exhibitions.".
- catalog spatial "Japan Hiroshima-shi.".
- catalog spatial "United States Military policy Moral and ethical aspects.".
- catalog spatial "United States Politics and government 1993-2001.".
- catalog subject "940.54/25 20".
- catalog subject "Atomic bomb Moral and ethical aspects.".
- catalog subject "D767.25.H6 H348 1996".
- catalog subject "Enola Gay (Bomber) Exhibitions Political aspects.".
- catalog subject "National Air and Space Museum Exhibitions Political aspects.".
- catalog subject "Public history.".
- catalog subject "World War, 1939-1945 Japan Hiroshima-shi.".
- catalog title "An exhibit denied : lobbying the history of Enola Gay / Martin Harwit.".
- catalog type "text".