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Russell, Bertrand : Common Sense and Nuclear Warfare

Simon and Schuster, New York, 1959

Original publisher's beige cloth binding with black dust wrapper in mylar. 5 1/2" x 8." Ninety-two pages, complete. Dust wrapper and pages and covers of the book are virtually pristine and intact. Binding is tight. Pages are browned. Dust wrapper has slight wear at the head and tail of spine and at the fore-edge of the front panel. Dust wrapper is not price-clipped. No remainder marks. A Fine book in a Fine dust wrapper. Excerpt from the front flap of the dust wrapper: "This book is a statement from the intellectual summit on the most important issue of our time. Bertrand Russell, the eminent philosopher, mathematician, and Nobel Prize winner for literature, speaks out boldly, urgently, and constructively on war and peace and on ways of effecting a radical change of outlook for both East and West. We can no longer think of warfare in the traditional terms of power politics, Bertrand Russell says, for nuclear warfare will bring destruction to both victor and vanquished." Excerpt from the Preface: "The aim of this book is to show possible means of achieving peace in ways which should be equally acceptable to Communist Nations, to NATO Nations and to uncommitted Nations. It is my hope that there is no word in the following pages suggesting a bias towards either side. ... What is needed is not an appeal to this or that -ism, but only to common sense." Bertrand Russell (1872-1970) was a British Renaissance man who was a philosopher, mathematician, historian, political activist, social critic, and an author. Russell received many awards in his lifetime including the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1950 for 'his varied and significant writings in which he champions humanitarian ideals and freedom of thought.'". Book. Book Condition: Fine. Binding: Hardcover. Jacket: Fine

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