Elaine Scarry, photographed here in her home in Cambridge, Massachusetts, is the Walter M. Cabot Professor of Aesthetics and the General Theory of Value at Harvard University. She has just written a book called Thermonuclear Monarchy: Choosing Between Democracy and Doom, published by W. W. Norton & Company to be released on February 17, 2014.The book presents a case for the elimination of nuclear weapons.
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