Mar 6, 2022
Buy Kindle Version Order Paperback Critique from North Street Books by Jendi Reiter Leslie A. Sussan probes questions of historical memory and propaganda in her illuminating memoir Choosing Life: My Father’s Journey in Film from Hollywood to Hiroshima. Now an...Jun 19, 2021
This is a book with a complicated origin. For the author, writing this book was a way to learn about her father after his passing, in a way she never could during his life. For her father, Herbert Sussan, who was never to know about the book, its origins lay in his...Jun 19, 2021
My first recommendation, and a strong one at that, is Choosing Life: My Father’s Journey in Film from Hollywood to Hiroshima by Leslie A. Sussan. This fine book is a must-read for anyone interested in history or politics, both past and contemporary. The...Nov 28, 2020
Important insights into the effects of both the atomic bomb and the war in general that echo though the generations from various perspectives. Particularly interesting is the process of discovery of family that works it’s way though the book. — Stanley...Nov 22, 2020
A terrific juxtaposition of stories — the author and her family and the horror of nuclear war Full disclosure: I’m the pastor she mentions who visited her in Hiroshima in 1987 so I’ve known Ms. Sussan for a long time, though we don’t talk very...Oct 25, 2020
Plot: … Leslie A. Sussan’s memoir/biography Choosing Life centers on an urgent and fascinating story of profound historical significance. At the end of the second world war, Sussan’s father, then serving in the U.S. army, filmed and photographed the... 
