The 40s: The Story of a Decade

By The New Yorker

Categories: History

The 40s: The Story of a Decade is a 2014 anthology from The New Yorker, edited by Henry Finder. It gathers pieces the magazine published during the 1940s, covering World War II, its aftermath and the cultural life of the decade. Contributors include John Hersey, whose Hiroshima is excerpted, E. B. White, Rebecca West, A. J. Liebling, James Thurber and Shirley Jackson. Reporting, fiction, criticism and humor sit together, giving a portrait of the era as it was lived.

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