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The Report from Iron Mountain is a 1967 anti-war satire written by Leonard C. Lewin. [1] The book purports to be a leaked report authored by a Special Study Group tasked by the Kennedy Administration to plan the transition from a wartime economy and assess the potential social impacts of a "condition of general world peace."
Leonard C. Lewin (October 2, 1916 – January 28, 1999) [1] was an American writer, best known as the author of the bestseller The Report from Iron Mountain (1967). He also wrote Triage (1972), a novel about a covert group dedicated to killing people it considers to be not worth having around.
The Report from Iron Mountain is not a hoax, and it is a real report in all seriousness. On November 26, 1976, the report was reviewed in the book section of the Washington Post by Herschel McLandress, which was the pen name for Harvard professor John Kenneth Galbraith.
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Books in the satire genre. In satire, vices, follies, abuses, and shortcomings are held up to ridicule, ideally with the intent of shaming individuals, corporations, government, or society itself into improvement.
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The Report from Iron Mountain; The Fire Next Time, James Baldwin; Stardance, Spider Robinson and Jeanne Robinson; The Secret Life of Salvador Dalí, Salvador Dalí; Die Nigger Die!, H. Rap Brown; Ethics: Origin and Development, Peter Kropotkin; Secrets at Sea, Richard Peck, illustrated by Kelly Murphy; See a Heart, Share a Heart, Eric Telchin
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