Books

July, 1996

When Leonard Lewin's Report From Iron Mountain (The Free Press) appeared in 1967, it was soon after exposed as a satirical hoax, a clever parody of think-tank rhetoric. Now it's being republished, with a new introduction by Victor Navasky, because this send-up of conservative thinking has become a "sort of bible" among the Michigan Militia and other radical right-wing groups. That a Sixties liberal joke should inspire today's paramilitary suggests how pathetically distorted our nationa...