Product Description

For the half-century duration of the Cold War, the fallout shelter was a curiously American preoccupation. Triggered in 1961 by a hawkish speech by John F. Kennedy, the fallout shelter controversy - "to dig or not to dig" as "Business Week" put it at the time - forced many Americans to grapple with deeply disturbing dilemmas that went to the very heart of their self-image about what it meant to be an American, an upstanding citizen, and a moral human being. Investigating the role of schools, television, government bureaucracies, civil defense, and literature, and rich in detail - including a detailed tour of the vast fallout shelter in Greenbriar, Virginia, built to harbour the entire US Congress in the event of nuclear armageddon - this book goes to the very heart of America's Cold War experience.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #2940875 in Books
• Published on: 2001-08-31
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Dimensions: 1.28 pounds
• Binding: Hardcover
• 320 pages

Review

"Negotiating Justice is one of those exceedingly rare books that examine how lawyers and clients collaborate to produce legality. These stories will be an inspiration to law students aspiring to work in the public interest and an affirmation for the thousands of lawyers who do so daily."
---Richard Abel, author of "English Lawyers between Market and State: The Politics of Professionalism"