The Fate of the Earth (inscribed to Pulitzer-winners Susan and Neil Sheehan)
NY: Knopf, 1982. First. Hardcover. An association copy, inscribed in the year of publication on the front free endpaper: "For Susan and Neil [Sheehan], with highest admiration and affection -- Jonathan, December 1982." Uncommon signed. Susan and Neil Sheehan were fellow writers for The New Yorker, and both of them separately won a Pulitzer Prize for a book of general nonfiction: Susan in 1983 for Is There No Place on Earth for Me?, which profiled a schizophrenic woman in New York, and Neil in 1989 for A Bright Shining Lie: John Paul Vann and America in Vietnam (which also won the National Book Award). Schell also wrote especially about the Vietnam era. A powerhouse association as such. This book, Schell's best known, emerged from a trio of New Yorker articles (reminiscent of Rachel Carson's Silent Spring) and examines the biological, political, social, and moral consequences of nuclear warfare, asking how such a holocaust ultimately might be prevented. It is often described as the landmark anti-nuclear book of the 80s. Kai Erikson in The New York Times Book Review wrote at the time that the book was "an event of profound historical moment ... [I]n the end, it accomplishes what no other work has managed to do in the 37 years of the nuclear age. It compels us—and compel is the right word—to confront head on the nuclear peril in which we all find ourselves." It won the Los Angeles Times Book Prize and was nominated for the other major prizes. Black paper boards, black cloth. A fine copy in a near in a very good jacket with faint sunning to spine and a pinprick-size tear to the fold of the rear flap. A nice association connecting three important writers at The New Yorker. Fine / Very good. Item #2105
ISBN: 0394525590
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