F]irst published in 1965, it] represents a milestone in the application of the human sciences to the problems of avoiding catastrophic war and working toward a stable peace. Drawing on the work of some of the post-World War II titans of psychology, sociology, psychiatry and education...the book brought hope in a sometimes hopeless era and] provided a point of origin to those of us who came of age in the 1960s... James G. Blight