Boyer, Paul S.

Originally published in 1985, By the Bomb's Early Light is the first book to explore the cultural 'fallout' in America during the early years of the atomic age. Paul Boyer argues that the major aspects of the long-running debates about nuclear armament and disarmament developed and took shape soon after the bombing of Hiroshima.

Presents a selection of approximately one hundred articles, editorials, and essays published between 1980 and 1989 by journalists, columnists, and cultural observers in which they offer their assessments of President Ronald Reagan, and the policies and ideology of his administration.

Explores the lives of the men and women who created the social atmosphere that led to the Salem witch trials of 1692.