{"product_id":"report-from-iron-mountain-paperback","title":"Report from Iron Mountain - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eLeonard C. Lewin\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eClaiming to be of the contents of a \"secret government report\" until it was proven false by the investigative work of journalist and scholars, \u003ci\u003eReport from Iron Mountain\u003c\/i\u003e outlines the social structure changes that would come with world peace in the 1960s. \u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThis political satire that took the world by storm under the guise of a \"secret government report\" was a bestselling novel of the late 1960s. After journalists and scholars debated for years over its disturbing claims, the truth revealed that the perplexing, ingenious, and ceaselessly curious \u003ci\u003eReport from Iron Mountain\u003c\/i\u003e was not filled with contents of a top-secret document, but rather made up of writer\/editor Leonard Lewis's own fictional predictions. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eLewis claims that the condition of permanent peace at the end of the Cold War would threaten the nation's economic and social stability, in addition to his controversial examination of how political leadership reflects on the nation's ability to go to war. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThough proven to be a false claim of nonfiction, Lewin and the consortium of peace movement intellectuals that conceived and launched the concept went on to publish a book that would take on a life of its own, far from what was intended.\u003ch3\u003eBack Jacket\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eUpon 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eLeonard C. Lewin is an American author best known for his bestselling book \u003ci\u003eReport From Iron Mountain. \u003c\/i\u003eLewin studied at Harvard University. He passed away in January 1999.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 176\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.44 x 8 x 5 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e August 25, 2008\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57288676704561,"sku":"9781439123119","price":23.07,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0958\/3486\/5969\/files\/u4_6icOdQ19781439123119.webp?v=1793749886","url":"https:\/\/www.welibooks.com\/products\/report-from-iron-mountain-paperback","provider":"Welibooks","version":"1.0","type":"link"}