The Atomic Age Forty-Five Scientists and Scholars Speak on National and World Affairs

New York, NY: Basic Books. Near Fine in Very Good+ dust jacket. 1963. 1st Edition Thus; 1st Printing. Hardcover. The book and its contents are in clean, bright condition. Black cloth covered boards have silver and red gilt lettering to the spine of the book. There is one small, but noticeable bump to the bottom corners of the book covers. The text pages are clean and bright, though starting to tone / darken due to the acid content of the paper. The endpapers are a solid white color (again with some light toning, especially to the edges). The dust jacket has a couple of small edge tears and wrinkles where the bumping to the covers occurred. The white dust jacket has some beginning toning and there is some ground-in dirt, especially to the rear cover. The top rear edge of the dust jacket has a small spot of darkening / discoloration. "Morton M. Grodzins (11 August 1917 – 7 March 1964) was a professor of political science at the University of Chicago, as well as a dean of the school and an editor at Chicago University Press. He is known for coining the term "tipping point" in studies of white flight, such as "Metropolitan Segregation" (1957) and The Metropolitan Area as a Racial Problem (1958). His theories related to Tipping Point were later made famous by Malcolm Gladwell and his book, "The Tipping Point." His book Americans Betrayed (1949) was the first major study criticizing the Japanese-American internment during World War II. His book Making un-Americans (1955) looked at Cold War paranoia in a critical light. Owing to his concern about the threat of nuclear war, he played a leading role in the Pugwash Conferences on Science and World Affairs. He also wrote major studies of American federalism, in which he criticized the idea that the federal, state, and local governments operated distinctly from one another. He argued that the governments resembled a marble cake where the different flavors blended together rather than remaining in layers. This concept of cooperative federalism was distinct from dual federalism. " (from Wikipedia) .