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Award-winning journalist and best-selling author Eric Schlosser investigates the machinations of U.S. industry to reveal disturbing truths about American society. In the acclaimed Fast Food Nation, Schlosser looks at our industrial food system and the growth of the U.S. fast food industry domestically and abroad as a pernicious, powerful force. In his most recent work, Command and Control, Schlosser turns his gaze to the nuclear threat. At the height of the cold war, a bomb more powerful than the one that destroyed Hiroshima was nearly detonated by accident in the American heartland. Schlosser finds that, in near-misses like this one, the U.S. has come close many times to obliterating itself. With characteristic in-depth, intimate portraits of the places and people involved, Schlosser tours America's nuclear current and past facilities, wondering how it is that an American city has not yet been wiped out by a nuclear bomb. Not content to stop with an examination of military leaders and the symbolic figureheads of nuclear industry, Schlosser finds fault with a wide-ranging bureaucratic system. Command and Control is the saga of a system that promises a control that is much-needed-but ultimately delivers only the illusion of control.
Roy Eisenhardt practiced law for twelve years in San Francisco and taught at UC Berkeley's Boalt Hall School of Law. He was President of the Oakland Athletics and served as the Executive Director for the California Academy of Sciences.
