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Jonathan SchellDoris Shaffer FellowJonathan Schell is the author of 13 books. They include The Fate of the Earth (Knopf, 1982), which received the Los Angeles Times book prize, among other awards, and was nominated for the Pulitzer Prize, the National Book Award, and the National Critics Award; The Village of Ben Suc (Knopf, 1967); The Military Half (Knopf, 1968); The Time of Illusion (Knopf, 1976); The Abolition (Knopf, 1984); History in the Sherman Park (Knopf, 1987); The Real War (Pantheon, 1988); Observing the Nixon Years (Pantheon, 1989); The Gift of Time (Metropolitan Books, 1998); The Unfinished Twentieth Century (Verso, 2001); and The Unconquerable World: Power, Nonviolence, and the Will of the People (Metropolitan, 2003), which Richard Falk in the Times called "the most impressive argument ever made that there exists a viable and desirable alternative to a continued reliance on war." In 2006, Nation Books published The Jonathan Schell Reader: On the United States at War, the Long Crisis of the American Republic, and the Fate of the Earth. His most recent book is The Seventh Decade: The New Shape of the Nuclear Danger (Metropolitan, 2007). According to a New York Times review, Schell's "careful assembly of the available evidence will scare the pants off most readers." Schell was born in New York City in 1943. He graduated from Harvard University in 1965. From 1967 until 1987, he was a staff writer at The New Yorker, where he served as the principal writer of the magazine's Notes and Comment section. He was a columnist for Newsday from 1990 until 1996. He has taught at many universities, including Princeton, Emory, New York University, the New School, Wesleyan University and the Yale Law School. He is currently a Visiting Lecturer at Yale College. In 1987, he was a fellow at the Institute of Politics at the John F. Kennedy School of government and in 2002 a fellow at the Kennedy School's Shorenstein Center on the Press, Politics, and Public Policy. In 2003, he was a visiting lecturer at the Yale Law School, and in 2005, a Distinguished Visiting Fellow at Yale's Center for the Study of Globalization. Since 1998, he has been a Senior Fellow at The Nation Institute, where he is now based, and the Peace and Disarmament Correspondent for The Nation magazine. Schell is now the Doris Shaffer Fellow at the Institute. He appears often on radio and television, including Democracy Now! with Amy Goodman, Fresh Air with Terry Gross, the Lehrer News Hour, the Charlie Rose Show, and Hardball with Chris Matthews. His recent articles on the nuclear question include essays in The Nation, Foreign Affairs, and Harper's, of which he is a contributing editor.
Selected Articles and Appearances: Nuclear Family Reaching Zero Splitting the Difference on Nuclear Weapons Obama's shift on nuclear weapons policy Reaching Zero Obama and the Return of the Real A Powerful Peace Jonathan Schell in conversation with Taylor Branch on Gandhi, MLK and nonviolence Jonathan Schell on Book-TV A Discussion with Jonathan Schell Book Reviews:
Bombs Away: Jonathan Schell Smoking Guns and Mushroom Clouds See Jonathan Schell's previous appearances on The Charlie Rose Show here
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The Great American StickupHow Reagan Republicans and Clinton Democrats Enriched Wall Street While Mugging Main Street
"One of the best reporters of our time."—Joan Didion In The Great American Stickup, celebrated journalist Robert Scheer uncovers the hidden story behind one of the greatest financial crimes of our time: the Wall Street financial crash of 2008 and the consequent global recession. Scheer goes back to Washington, D.C., a veritable crime scene, beginning in the 1980s, where the captains of the finance industry, their lobbyists and allies among leading politicians destroyed an American regulatory system that had been functioning effectively since the era of the New Deal. Check out Scheer's book tour! MoreMarfa Dialogues/Diálogos en Marfa: Politics and Culture of the Borderundef 0 | Marfa, Texas See acclaimed Nation Books authors Charles Bowden and Mark Danner speak at Marfa Dialogues: Politics and Culture of the Border, three days of art, film, music, and literature. Presented by Ballroom Marfa and The Washington Spectator, in collaboration with The Big Bend Sentinel, Marfa Public Radio and Marfa Book Company.
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