Report From Iron Mountain - Documentation of Disinformation
- Authors
- Lewin, Leonard C.
- Publisher
- Dell Publishing Company
- Tags
- conspiracy theory , false claim , fantasy , esoteric fiction , truther movement , politics , history , hoax
- ISBN
- 9780440573661
- Date
- 1967-01-01T00:00:00+00:00
- Size
- 0.49 MB
- Lang
- en
In a tradition of political satire that ranges from A MODEST PROPOSAL to DR. STRANGELOVE falls the perplexing, ingenious, and ceaselessly curious REPORT FROM IRON MOUNTAIN.
Upon 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 Lingerman, novelist E.L. Doctorow, and economist John Kenneth Galbraith, IRON MOUNTAIN would eventually take on a life of its own.