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Although its hard-cover publication by Alfred A. Knopf will not occur until April, one of the most talked-about books of the year is Jonathan Schell's The Fate of the World. First published in The New Yorker last month, it is an impassioned argument that nuclear weapons have made war obsolete and world government imperative. Astonishingly, some 40 new books on nuclear issues are scheduled to be published before the end of this year; Pocket Books is rushing into bookstores with 100,000 copies of Nuclear War: What's in It for You ?, a paperback primer...
Ironically, so does someone like Jonathan Schell, who dismissingly compares SALT to an aspirin administered to a patient with a terminal disease. While Schell's analysis of the potential danger of nuclear war is compelling, his prescription?general and complete disarmament and world government?is far too Utopian. And his thesis that the world is doomed if it does not take his advice is hardly helpful, since the world is almost certainly not going to take his advice...
NONFICTION: Ambition, Joseph Epstein American Dreams, Studs Terkel The Magazine Maze, Herbert R.Mayes -Naming Names, Victor Navasky -Walt Whitman, Justin Kaplan -"Watch Out for the Foreign Guests!" Orville Schell Ways of Escape, Graham Greene
NONFICTION: Ambition, Joseph Epstein ∙ American Dreams, Studs Terkel ∙ The Magazine Maze, Herbert R. Mayes ∙ Naming Names, Victor Navasky ∙ Walt Whitman, Justin Kaplan ∙ "Watch Out for the Foreign Guests!" Orville Schell ∙ Ways of Escape, Graham Greene
Earthly Powers, Anthony Burgess Italian Folktales, selected and retold by Italo Calvino -The Middle Ground, Margaret Drabble NONFICTION: American Dreams, Studs Terkel -The Magazine Maze, Herbert R. Mayes - Naming Names, Victor Navasky -Walt Whitman, Justin Kaplan - "Watch Out for the Foreign Guests!" Orville Schell Ways of Escape, Graham Greene Wayward Reporter: The Life of A.J.Liebling, Raymond Sokolov