Report from Iron Mountain Paperback - 2008
by Leonard C. Lewin
How does a left-wing satire from the 1960s become a "bible" to today's Radical Right? Recently resurfacing into polite society by way of a front-page story in The Wall Street Journal, this book makes a chillingly convincing claim to be a sinister government document on the dangerous effects of "permanent peace" on society and the economy. Brilliantly rendered in the vein of Dr. Strangelove, this reports proves frighteningly prescient of our current social and economic dysfunction. Author publicty.
From the rear cover
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 Lingeman, novelist E. L. Doctorow, and economist John Kenneth Galbraith, Iron Mountain would eventually take on a life of its own. Long out of print, the Report suddenly reappeared in "bootleg" editions more than twenty years after the original publication. In a manner never foreseen by the book's creators, it was now being read as a "bible" by the militias of the radical right - a bizarre reversal that returns this haunting satire to the spotlight and raises uncomfortable questions about the changing nature of today's political culture.
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- Title Report from Iron Mountain
- Author Leonard C. Lewin
- Binding Paperback
- Pages 176
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Free Press, Old Tappan, New Jersey, U.S.A.
- Date 2008-07-28
- ISBN 9781439123119 / 143912311X
- Weight 0.36 lbs (0.16 kg)
- Dimensions 8 x 5 x 0.44 in (20.32 x 12.70 x 1.12 cm)
- Dewey Decimal Code 355.02
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