Report from Iron Mountain: On the Possibility and Desirability of Peace

Leonard C. Lewin

ISBN 10: 068482390X / ISBN 13: 9780684823904

Edité par Free Press, 1996

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Synopsis :

This satire from the 1960s makes a convincing claim to be a government document on the destructive effects of the post-Cold War peace on American society and economy and illustrates the fears of a society struggling with its own identity and purpose. New material explores the history of this book.

Présentation de l'éditeur: In a tradition of political satire that ranges from A MODEST PROPOSAL to DR. STRANGELOVE falls the perplexing, ingenious, and ceaselessly curious REPORT FROM IRON MOUNTAIN. Upon its first appearance in 1967, this best-selling "secret government report" sparked immediate debate among journalists and scholars with its disturbingly convincing claim: a condition of "permanent peace" at the end of the Cold War would threaten our nation's economic and social stability. Although finally identified as an antimilitarist hoax by writer/editor Leonard Lewin, who conceived and launched the book with a consortium of peace movement intellectuals including future NATION editors Victor Navasky and Richard Lingerman, novelist E.L. Doctorow, and economist John Kenneth Galbraith, IRON MOUNTAIN would eventually take on a life of its own.

Détails bibliographiques

Titre : Report from Iron Mountain: On the ...
Éditeur : Free Press
Date d'édition : 1996
Reliure : Hardcover
Etat : Good
Etat de la jaquette : No Jacket