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Acting as a what-to-do guide for a hundred agonizing what’s-wrong reports on war, terror, habitat destruction, and the decay of democracy, this book lays out a ways to revitalize democratic resources via city and town government. Whatever a person’s current response to America’s civic ills and the world's threat from nuclear weapons, the ideas presented here will urge a productive new phase and aid in turning frustration into aspiration. This volume is a remarkable combination of practical politics, idealism, and invention.
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In City, Save Thyself!, David Wylie embarks on a novel and ambitious undertaking. Viewing a world landscape in which many national leaders play on our fears, he seeks a way to bring forth the better angels of our human nature. He finds in cities not problems but opportunities. Wylie sees the city as a laboratory of democracy. He then takes an important leap, to say: "Let us unite the world's cities, transnationally, for nuclear security."Can international security work with local leadership? Wylie shows how it can be done, and democracy can be renewed in the process. This inspiring work can help to seal the black hole into which all of civilization can be swallowed - nuclear annihilation.-Ed Aguilar, Executive Director, Project for Nuclear Awareness
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