At times of global crisis, Jonathan Schell's writings have always presented nuanced and influential alternatives to conventional thinking. The moral clarity of his reportage first entered the public consciousness with his dispatches for The New Yorker on Vietnam. These seminal articles became The Village of Ben Suc (1967), a searing account that predicted the failure of Pentagon politics. Over the subsequent decades, Schell's varied and consistently prescient articles have articulated the now commonly held notion that image has replaced substance in politics; provided (in Fate of the Earth) an apocalyptic vision of nuclear war that revitalized the disarmament movement; and more recently, charted the rise of "the other superpower"—the international peace movement that transcends country, class, and religion. As America finds itself at a crucial juncture both domestically and internationally, The Jonathan Schell Reader is vital reading for those who wish to better understand the history they have come from and the direction they should be heading toward. This book provides a landmark collection that spans the career of one of the leading thinkers and authors of our time.
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Jonathan Schell was born in 1943 in New York City, where he still lives. Among his previous books is the best-selling The Fate of the Earth. His writing on Vietnam has been included in the Library of America’s recent two-volume Reporting Vietnam.
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This review is from: The Jonathan Schell Reader: On the United States at War, the Long Crisis of the American Republic, and the Fate of the Earth (Nation Books) (Paperback)
When wondering about 'detant' or 'salt' or 'MAD'(mutual assured destruction) you need to consider the facts. This book helps to understand the nuclear arms race and is useful when pondering todays militaries and arms.
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UP TO A FEW months ago, Ben Suc was a prosperous village of some thirty-five hundred people. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
full nuclear disarmament, abolition agreement, unconquerable world, sixty helicopters, nuclear predicament, virtual fiction, global totalitarianism, initial nuclear radiation, nuclear peril, real twentieth century, new evolutionism, thousand rads, nuclear dilemma, human extinction, liberal civilization, psychological objective, nuclear question, nuclear world, nuclear danger, limited war, tangible objectives, thermal pulse Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
United States, Soviet Union, Ben Suc, Major Billings, Cold War, South Vietnamese, White House, New York, First World War, North Vietnamese, Hind Swaraj, President Johnson, Quang Ngai, South Africa, Richard Nixon, Second World War, Eastern Europeans, The Jonathan Schell Reader, Cedar Falls, Major Ingersol, Captain Reese, Duc Pho, Middle East, National Liberation Front, New Jersey New!
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UP TO A FEW months ago, Ben Suc was a prosperous village of some thirty-five hundred people. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
full nuclear disarmament, abolition agreement, unconquerable world, sixty helicopters, nuclear predicament, virtual fiction, global totalitarianism, initial nuclear radiation, nuclear peril, real twentieth century, new evolutionism, thousand rads, nuclear dilemma, human extinction, liberal civilization, psychological objective, nuclear question, nuclear world, nuclear danger, limited war, tangible objectives, thermal pulse Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
United States, Soviet Union, Ben Suc, Major Billings, Cold War, South Vietnamese, White House, New York, First World War, North Vietnamese, Hind Swaraj, President Johnson, Quang Ngai, South Africa, Richard Nixon, Second World War, Eastern Europeans, The Jonathan Schell Reader, Cedar Falls, Major Ingersol, Captain Reese, Duc Pho, Middle East, National Liberation Front, New Jersey New!
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- Heart of Darkness (Dover Thrift Editions) by Joseph Conrad on page 180, page 181, and page 184
- The Unconquerable World: Power, Nonviolence, and the Will of the People by Jonathan Schell in Front Matter (1), Front Matter (2), and Front Matter (3)
- Heart Of Darkness by Joseph Conrad on page 180, page 181, and page 184
- Letters from Prison and Other Essays (Society and Culture in East-Central Europe) by Adam Michnik in Front Matter, page 355, and page 371
- The Origins of Totalitarianism by Hannah Arendt on page 136, and page 194
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