Every man should try
Subtitle: adventures of a public interest activist
By: Jeremy J. Stone
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: Public Affairs
Published: 1999
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 428
ISBN-13: 9781891620140
Subjects: Geschichte 1955-1999; Science; Scientists; Erlebnisbericht; Biography; Au enpolitik; Politik; Political activists; Political activity; Autobiographie
Description: During a lifetime, of activism - including three decades as the president of the Federation of American Scientists - Jeremy J. Stone has worked on a broad range of issues from nuclear war, disarmament and ethnic conflict to human rights and good government.

In this memoir, carefully documented - and decorated with special ornaments showing key turning points - he describes two dozen of his most fascinating adventures and dares to try to determine whether and why they did, or did not, make a difference. He describes roles in achieving important arms control treaties, in softening U.S.-Soviet hostility, and in undermining Maoist movements in Asia and Latin America.

His adventures include the early discovery of Reagan's interest in astrology and the prevention of a false alarm for an East Coast earthquake. He helped to initiate a CIA-KGB connection and his ideas are disclosed for the peaceful resolution of two of the world's most impacted territorial struggles - in Yugoslavia and between Taiwan and China - as well as his human rights work in defense of Andrei Sakharov and his effort to save the life of Soviet Premier Khrushchev's daughter.

He even played a role in Watergate.
Notes: Includes index.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 369-416) and index.