Leonard C. Lewin
Leonard C. Lewin (2 October 1916 – 28 January 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.
Personal life
Lewin graduated from
The Report from Iron Mountain
In the original 1967 publication of The Report From Iron Mountain, written at the suggestion of Victor Navasky, Lewin was credited only as the author of the introduction to a purported government report that concluded that if a lasting peace "could be achieved, it would almost certainly not be in the best interests of society to achieve it."[1]
Some
Lewin first claimed that the report was a hoax in 1972, writing that the Pentagon Papers were "as outrageous, morally and intellectually" as his own satiric creation: "The charade is over. Some of the documents read like parodies of Iron Mountain, rather than the reverse."[1]
References
- Mark Fenster, Conspiracy Theories: Secrecy and Power in American Culture, Revised and Updated Edition, University of Minnesota Press, Minneapolis, 2008, pp. 115–117.
- ^ ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2016-04-20.
- ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2016-04-20.
- ^ Carvajal, Doreen (July 1, 1996). "Onetime Political Satire Becomes a Right-Wing Rage and a Hot Internet Item". The New York Times. Retrieved June 26, 2021.