Description: From one of our leading social thinkers, a compelling case for the elimination of nuclear weapons.
Brief description: Elaine Scarry is the Cabot Professor of Aesthetics and the General Theory of Value at Harvard University. Her book The Body in Pain was a National Book Critics Circle Award finalist. She lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
Review Quotes: Scarry's book requires any thoughtful reader to revisit the basic postulates and the deepest human purposes of our system of government.--Laurence H. Tribe, Professor of Constitutional Law, Harvard Law School