books by Jonathan Schell (revolution abolition observing)

books by Jonathan Schell

books:

The Fate of the Earth and The Abolition (Stanford Nuclear Age Series)

2 reviews
Jonathan Schell

Stanford University Press, 2000

The World Reduced to Grass and Insects
This book attempts to conceptualize the idea of a full scale nuclear exchange between the cold war superpowers, since the idea itself is now "unthinkable". To explore this lack of understanding the author first explains in detail the immediate and long lasting effects of full scale nuclear war. Then, he comments on the situation, making a bid for sanity in an insane situation. The author believes ...

The Seventh Decade: The New Shape of Nuclear Danger (American Empire Project)

5 reviews
Jonathan Schell

Holt Paperbacks, 2008

kudos to Schell, again
Since he published The Fate of the Earth, Jonathan Schell has shown himself to be the most cogent and unflinching thinker on the planet about the dilemmas of nuclear weaponry. He has evolved an elegant style that gets beyond the portentousness, perhaps unavoidable given the subject, of his earlier classic. But like The Fate of the Earth, The Seventh Decade is composed in a style of high ...

On Revolution (Penguin Classics)

4 reviews
Hannah Arendt

Penguin Classics, 2006

Brilliant
This book is yet another deep, original and controversial contribution of Hannah Arendt to twentieth century political theory. In this book, Arendt analyzes the phenomenon of revolution by focusing almost exclusively on the great XVIIIth century revolutions, the American and the French. Arendt's deep insights allow her to compare, both on a theoretical and a practical level, the similarities ...

Letters from Prison and Other Essays (Society and Culture in East-Central Europe)
Adam Michnik

University of California Press, 1987

Observing the Nixon Years
Jonathan Schell

Vintage, 1990

The Time of Illusion

1 review
Jonathan Schell

Vintage, 1976

The Best
Easily the best book yet written about Watergate and that surreal blot on history known as The Nixon Administration. Powerfully -- and beautifully -- written by the great Jonathan Schell("The Fate of the Earth"), this work is must reading for all those who view Richard Nixon as some sort of mysterious American Everyman, at heart in fact the last true American Progressive. Yeah, sure. Written only ...

A Just Response: The Nation on Terrorism, Democracy, and September 11, 2001 (Nation Books)

3 reviews

Nation Books, 2002

Beware, sceptical thoughts found here
An overview of some of the contents found in this book, a collection of writings from The Nation magazine written in the few months after the 9-11 massacres. William Greider, Bill Moyers and others address corporate knavery since 9-11. Katha Pollit asks why we have to fund barbaric dictatorships like the one in Saudi Arabia and oppose progressive forces in the ME. She points to the really ...

The Unconquerable World: Power, Nonviolence, and the Will of the People

12 reviews
Jonathan Schell

Holt Paperbacks, 2004

People Power Explained
This is a compelling book with well-supported arguments. "The Unconquerable World" explains why ventures such as the U.S. in Iraq are doomed to failure. My favorite section is the one dealing with the collapse of the Soviet Union. Modern American myth has it that the U.S. was solely responsible for the "defeat" of the USSR - through Afghanistan, the insane weapons race, etc. While these ...