Empire of Ashes

Walter Edgar's Journal by South Carolina Public Radio

Aug 7, 202649:54Arts

This week we’ll be talking with Charleston author James M. Scott, author of Empire of Ashes: Truman, Hirohito, and the Descent into Total War (2026, W.W. Norton & Company). With startling immediacy, Empire of Ashes illum...

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