Dwight Lockwood, son of the Secretary of Defense, crafts his life under his father's shadow. Brought up in a world of family secrets and taboos, Dwight struggles to create an independent psychic life. In college he falls in love with a beautiful young leftist, Sabrina Montenegro, and follows her to revolutionary Nicaragua, but is unable to make love. Dwight ends up taking his father's path into public service, though as a peacemaker and diplomat, not a warrior. After an assignment in Moscow, he is posted to Guatemala, where Sabrina joins him. Finally they consummate their love. While Sabrina is working in a hospital in a village, Dwight learns that she has been "disappeared." With Sabrina as his guiding angel, Dwight rises to the world's top diplomatic post. Inspired by the life of Dag Hammarskjold, the great U.N. Secretary General who lost his life in the Congo, To Enter Jerusalem tracks a man's destiny from his early wounding to a world career. Like Hammarskjold, Dwight has to decide to do his duty and to "enter Jerusalem", no matter what the risk.

To Enter Jerusalem

Literature & Fiction

Craig Eisendrath

United States

The Permanent Press

When most of us think about the potential of outer space for future generations, we think of world communications, satellite navigation, and scientific exploration. U.S. Space Command, however, thinks about weapons. Believing that conflict in space and wars fought from space are inevitable, the president has called on the agency to weaponize outer space and thus provoke an arms race that could cost the United States trillions of dollars and could lead to the demise of the human race.
In War in Heaven, a Nobel Prize–nominated peace activist and a former U.S. foreign service officer (who helped write the Outer Space Treaty of 1967) look at the history of military uses of space and the current plans for “militarizing the heavens,” including kinetic, laser, nuclear bombardment, and anti-satellite weapons. Contrary to the claims of Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld that the United States faces a “space Pearl Harbor,” Caldicott and Eisendrath show that the United States itself is today the principal obstruction to passage of an international treaty banning weapons from outer space.
At a time when plans to build and deploy space weapons are on the administration’s agenda but only just becoming known to the general public, this book will help launch a national discussion of a critical issue.

War in Heaven: The Arms Race in Outer Space

Travel

Helen Caldicott

Food, Lodging & Transportation

The New Press

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