Stargazers and Gravediggers Memoirs to Worlds in Collision

New York: William Morrow & Co, 1984. Stated First Edition; First Printing. Softcover. Very Good with no dust jacket. Unmarked. ; Book Description: Spine has no signs of creasing. Pages are clean and not marred by notes or folds. Covers are shiny, square and with minor wear. In one of the greatest acts of censorship in American history, a powerful lobby of establishment scientists forced Macmillan to suspend publication of Immanuel Velikovsky's "Worlds in Collision" - the first shot fired in the campaign against Velikovsky's "heretical" views. Here, with enormous dignity and intelligence, Velikovsky himself tells the full story of one of the most shameful book-burning episodes of our time. This is Velikovsky's final word on the matter, and it forms an important inside acount of a scandal that shook the worlds of science and publishing alike. ; 9.10 X 6.10 X 0.80 inches; 346 pages.