The Myths of August; A Personal Exploration of Our Tragic Cold War Affair with the Atom
New York: Pantheon Books [A Cornelia & Michael Bessie Book], 1994. First Edition [Stated], First Printing [Stated]. Hardcover. 25 cm. xii, 399, [3] pages. Appendices. Notes. Index. Slight wear to DJ. Inscribed by the author. Stewart Lee Udall (January 31, 1920 – March 20, 2010) was an American politician and later, a federal government official. After serving three terms as a congressman from Arizona, he served as Secretary of the Interior, under presidents John F. Kennedy and Lyndon B. Johnson. In 1979, he returned to the West. In 1980, Udall was elected to the Central Arizona Water Conservation District Board and commissioned as a member of the Morrison Institute. Udall was presented with the Wilderness Society's highest conservation award. He was awarded the United Nations Gold Medal for Lifetime Achievement. Udall received the Common Cause Public Service Achievement Award for his lifelong protection of the environment and defense of American citizens who were victims of nuclear weapons testing. In 1987, he published To the Inland Empire: Coronado and our Spanish Legacy, which retraces the trails of the explorer Francisco Vásquez de Coronado as he searched for the "golden cities" of Cibola in what now is Arizona, New Mexico, Oklahoma, and Texas. Udall published The Quiet Crisis and the Next Generation in 1988, a revised edition with new chapters of The Quiet Crisis (1963). "The Quiet Crisis" introduced the Myth of Superabundance. In 1990, he co-authored Beyond the Mythic West, which examines effects of change upon the inhabitants and lands of the western United States. In 1998, he issued The Myths of August: A Personal Exploration of Our Tragic Cold War Affairs with the Atom. More