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Joseph F. Pilat, who is with the Office of Senior Specialists, Congressional Research Service, Library of Congress, has written widely on nuclear energy and weapons issues in U.S. and British journals. The views expresses here are his alone and are not to be construed as representing the Congressional Research Service.
specializing in American politics and political thought. Previously, he lectured at Cornell University.
the editor of Conflict: An International Journal.He is the author of Communist Revolutionary Warfare: From the Vietminh to the Viet Congand has written for Foreign Affairs, International Affairs,and Orbis.
Formerly, he served as director of the University of California’s Survey Research Center and as director of the Bureau of Applied Social Research, Columbia University. He is the author of The Anatomy of Racial Attitudesand Anti-Semitism in America.
His work in the sociology of art includes Man Made Plain: The Poet in Contemporary Society, The Arts in Society,and The Writer as Social Seer.
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Pilat, J.F., Pollack, S., Tanham, G.K. et al. Books in review. Society 20, 85–94 (1983). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02695013
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