Realism, Utopia, and the Mushroom Cloud: Four Activist Intellectuals and Their Strategies for Peace, 1945-1989--Louise Weiss (France), Leo Szilard (Us

by Michael Bess

Book Overview

"Two world wars, concentration camps, the obliteration of Hiroshima and
Nagasaki, and continued preparations for nuclear war illustrate the modern
world's propensity for mass destruction. . . . Yet there have been
important signs of resistance to this trend. These have included not only
the emergence of mass-based peace and disarmament movements but activist
intellectuals grappling with the growing problem posed by mass violence...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0226044211
• ISBN13: 9780226044217
• Release Date: December 1993
• Publisher: University of Chicago Press
• Length: 344 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.1" x 9.0"

Customer Reviews

A Bess Tour-de-Force

A terribly interesting book for anyone interested in well-written and throroughly researched biographies written on four people-Louise Weiss, Leo Szilard, E.P. Thompson and Danilo Dolci-whose ideas for peace in the post World War II world have altered the way we think about today.