Thank God for the Atom Bomb and Other Essays Audiobook (Free)

“This is not a book to market tranquility, and readers in quest of peace of mind should look elsewhere,” writes Paul Fussell in the foreword to the original, sharp, tart, and thoroughly engaging work. The famous author concentrates his lethal wit on habitual euphemizers, artistically pretentious third-rate novelists, sexual puritans, and the “Disneyfiers of life.” He moves from your inflammatory title piece within the morality of falling the bomb on Hiroshima to a amusing disquisition within the “naturist motion”, to essays on this is of the Indy 500 race, on George Orwell, and on the shift in men’s chivalric impulses toward their moms. Fussell’s “frighteningly acute eyes for the manners, mores, and social tastes of Americans” (NY Times Reserve Review) is usually abundantly evident in this amusing dissection of the enemies of truth, beauty, and justice.