POLITICAL BOOK NOTES
political book notes Public affairs books to be published this month. The Americanization of Dixie. John Egerton. Harper’s Magazine Press. A good ideadetailing the homogenization of the...
...His Picture in the Papers: A Speculation on Celebrity in America, Based on the Life of Douglas Fairbanks, Sr...
...Viking, $8.95...
...And he has a. bizarre conviction that the tax laws benefit the middle class more than the rich...
...Press of Kentucky, $10.50...
...Four Reforms-A Guide for the Seventies...
...Tad Szulc...
...It’s like reading a 19thcentury novel...
...It’s surprising in a way that the “necks” in Harrisonville, Missouri, didn’t start hassling the town hippies sooner...
...Random House, $5.95...
...The material suggests the possibility of a fresh, ironic, and insightful biography...
...Bobbs-Merrilr $12.95...
...A good ideadetailing the homogenization of the Southuninspiringly executed...
...More a catalog than a work of analysis, this history of American welfare law dares few interpretive insights and contains almost no new factual material...
...Robinson Rimer...
...Thomas C. Southerland, Jr., William McCleery...
...A Compulsive Spy...
...Farrar, Straus & Giroux, $8.95/$3.50...
...The New Heavens and New Earth: Political Religion in America...
...Holt, Rinehart, and Winston, $6.95...
...Paul Starr...
...Ti er in the Court...
...Robert Sobel...
...Praeger, $9...
...His case against the Fifth Amendment is surprisingly persuasive...
...Readings on La Raza: The Twentieth Century...
...Still not seeing the source of the explosion, I swung across the seat back and sat on top of him...
...Still its summary of 300 years’ experience is useful background reading for the next round of welfare reform, a task often approached as if none of the solutions had ever been tried before...
...Whiting’s battles are exciting and he seems to write about them exactly and with schoolboy affection...
...Thayer acknowledges that Miller “actually wants good men in office,” but adds that “his contributions also enhance his business and social image...
...Univ...
...The End of Intelligent Writing: Literary Politics in America...
...Hunt are hand-medown...
...Simon & Schuster, $7.95...
...Blacks in America’s Wars...
...Robert W.W...
...Pantheon, $6.95...
...The Institute of Pacific Relations: Asian Scholars and American Politics...
...Environmental Issues: Population, Pollution, and Economics...
...Johns Hopkins, $1 1 SO...
...If I tried for 21, I would only be overstaying my welcome...
...Random House, $10...
...Some confuse this approach with conservatism, but in fact it is the only way to make liberal policies succeed...
...Man and Water: The Social Sciences in The Politics of Nuclear Proliferation...
...The distinction of his approach is his refusal to ignore the complications and realities of problems ranging from automotive safety to welfare reform...
...Charlie Simpson’s Apocalypse...
...Paul Hoffman...
...In this tedious reconstruction of Stern’s major cases, Hoffman fails to provide other than surface explanations of why the Garden State has nurtured so much corruption or what makes Herbert run...
...Univ...
...William R. Corson...
...Then a hippie farm boy went berserk one day and shot three people dead with his M-1 and then killed himself...
...Earthwalk...
...Quadrangle/New York Times, $7.95...
...HeathLexington, $13...
...But one wishes Lundborg could have found another way to document his pilgrimage, for the ideas he actually expresses in the book are the tritest form of platitude...
...Matt S. Meier, Feliciano Rivera, eds...
...Public Schools of Choice Mario D. Fantini...
...An excerpt appears in this issue of The Washington Monthly...
...From Poor Law to Welfare State...
...Jeffrey M. Zupan...
...This is the author’s attempt to grasp “the pattern and inner meaning of the phenomenon of military failure and its present and future efforts in the United States, its institutions, and its people...
...Most people are unwilling to consider the dilemmas of euthanasia, or even the more tractable problems of care for the aged, until these issues stare them in the face...
...Univ...
...Israel Drapkin, ed...
...On the Practice of Government...
...Larry L. King...
...Richard Schickel...
...Mullen...
...Buckley’s program for the seventies includes repeal of the Fifth Amendment, alteration of the First Amendment to permit state aid to parochial schools, elimination of tax exemptions along with adoption of a uniform tax of 15 per cent, and the limitation of federal welfare payments to states whose per capita income is below the national...
...Who Shakes the Money Tree...
...The Genteel Populists...
...insight...
...The authors make a convincing case for the revival of the passenger train...
...The book seems to be an amalgam of all of Egerton’s magazine articles that touch tangentially on his announced-but never developedtheme...
...Monad, $5.00/$1.45...
...Must We Educate...
...Kahn raises the question-and ducks it...
...George Destroyin Destroying Our Children* dramatic victory at the 1940 Republican Management of Water Resources...
...Carol Bereiter...
...Raridom House, $6.95...
...Claudio Naranjo...
...Feelir, g blue about protein, power, population, and other problems of a crowded world...
...Johns Hopkins, $12...
...This book recounts the episode, and what led to it, and then how the townfolk went after the hippies and one black youth whom they found’particularly unbearable, perhaps because he liked to lie around with white girls in full public view...
...Black Children, White Dreams...
...Youngblood also tells us something about government service when he explains why he left the Secret Service in 197 1 : “I had rounded out 20 years...
...The Passing of the Night: My Seven Years as a Prisoner of the North Vietnamese...
...The kids hung around noisily in the claustrophoic town square making out on drugs and making an eyesore of themselves to provoke the wrath of their bigoted elders, if this book is to be believed...
...Univ...
...Although some of the book is understandably familiar in light of the Watergate scandal, Thayer has produced an impressive amount of fresh material...
...William F. Swindler...
...The Department of Health, Education and Welfare...
...Court and Constitution in the Twentieth Century: The Modern Inter retation...
...struction, the Origins of the Cold War...
...Johns Hopkins, $3...
...William R. Kintner, Robert L. Pflatzgraff, Jr., eds...
...John N. Thomas...
...Ernest W. Burgess on Community, Family, and Delin uency...
...It is important to decide which of these two views [limits-to-growth vs...
...Victimology...
...happy days ahead] is correct before one can get any sense on how to judge the discussion in this volume...
...political book notes Public affairs books to be published this month...
...Future Without Shock...
...Simon & Schuster, $8.95...
...Sometimes an old-fashioned World War I1 book makes delightful reading...
...PrenticeHall, $6.45/ $2.45...
...Last Ri hts: A Case for the Good Death...
...L. Douglas James, ed...
...The tone of this memoir is suggested by the vivid way Youngblood recounts the incident that made his career: “The Vice President reacted immediately...
...Philip Slater...
...Unfortunately we will not have the space to do so...
...Convention-writes a bland book that conThe Library of Congress...
...Charterhouse, $6.95/$4.95...
...Sheed and Ward, $10...
...Mason & Lipscomb, $8.95...
...Remaking Asia: Essays in the American Uses of Power...
...He quotes one local politico on what contracts are really important: “Jesus, you know, if you can get 25 miles of guardrails, you’re all set...
...Camper Soman...
...The jacket photo, which show a woman well into her own middle age, suggests why books like this don’t have the impact they should...
...Charles A. Good- tains little that is new in the way of fact or rum...
...The Impact of School Desegregation on a Southern City...
...Thomas J. Cottle...
...The Medical Runaround...
...Consequences of Failure...
...This one is about the very last days of the Allied offensive in Europe...
...This is a modest effort, but in the 100-plus pages of straightforward observations Mannes makes a sensible and moving argument for the right “to die with dignity at a moment when life is devoid of it...
...Mark Selden, ed...
...Charterhouse, $6.95...
...The Healing Journey: New Approaches to Consciousness...
...There is something admirable about a man like Lundborg asking, “What does the bombing of Cambodia have to do with bulldozers pushing a freeway through a virgin stand of redwoods...
...Marya hannes...
...Richard Kostelanetz...
...Heath-Lexington, $12.50...
...An invaluable resource book...
...Simon & Schuster, $8.95...
...of Washington, $8.95...
...Free Press, $9...
...F. ROSS Peterson...
...Prophet without Honor: Glen Taylor and the Fight for American Liberalism...
...Cornelius Gallagher and former Newark Mayor Hugh Addonizio...
...But amid Kahn’s predictions of a better tomorrow, the reader may wonder about the constraints to production we’ve encountered recently...
...George Thayer...
...Soviet-American Confrontation: Post Recon...
...He has bitten off more than he can chew...
...The Future of the Corporation...
...Hawthorn, $7.95...
...Norton, $6.95...
...Playboy, $?95...
...Louis B. Lundborg...
...Pantheon, $12.95/$3.45...
...Harper & Row, $12.50...
...Morrow, $5.95...
...Weybright & Talley, $9.95...
...These essays from a 1970 conference are just the thing to make the future look bright...
...and was now eligible for retirement...
...Quester begins by proposing a country-by-country look at plans for nuclear weaponry...
...What a relief to fill our minds with the guiltless stunts of Monty and Ike and old “Blood and Guts...
...The author was chairman of the Bank of America when its Santa Barbara branches were being bombed, and this book describes the ‘‘greening of a banker” which followed...
...Robert R. Mayer, James McCullough, Charles E. King, Anne BordersPatterson...
...Simon & Schuster, $8.95...
...Thomas G. Paterson...
...You gotta plow snow for 10 years before you can do as well as you can with guardrails...
...An adapted excerpt appeared in the November issue of The Washington Monthly...
...Viking.This is strictly the early draft for a more detailed and original study of E. Howard Hunt, the spy, spy-author, and plumber...
...All the essays collected here have appeared before, but this finally works to Moynihan’s advantage by showing how well his views have held up over time...
...Andrew Malleson, M. D. Hart, $7.95...
...Rufus E. Miles, Jr...
...Drew Middleton...
...Joe Eszterhas...
...Walter I. Trattner...
...Norton, $9.75...
...Danie P. Moynihan...
...Thayer also displays an impressive grasp of the way state and local governments really operate...
...The End of the War in Europe: April 15-May 23, 1945...
...By the time he has touched base in New Delhi, Tokyo, Jerusalem, and a dozen other capitals and foreseen a nuclear future, the cumulative effect is overwhelming...
...Discussed by Suzannah Lessard in “Moral Myopia: The New York Review and the New York Intellectuals” in the November issue of The Washington Monthly...
...William F. Buckley, Jr...
...Cushing Strout...
...The Old Man and Lesser Mortals...
...The common ingredient is the arrogance of power...
...Press of Kentucky, $12.75...
...The author’s sympathy‘ for the poor is as always well under control...
...Where Has Last July Gone...
...The Way to Go...
...Houghton Mifflin, $5.95...
...Simon Lazarus...
...About the larger conflict between Eisenhower and Bradley on the one hand and Montgomery and Churchill on the other over whether or not to go for Berlin before the Russians got there, Whiting gives us the conventional version...
...The Distribution of Air Quality in the New York Region...
...Money Mania: The Eras of Great Speculation in America, 1770-1970...
...of Chicago, $13.50...
...Lawrence G. Hines...
...Strategy and Values: Selected Writings of Robert Strausz-Hupe...
...Twenty Years in the Secret Service...
...Praeger, $9.50...
...Putnam, $4.95...
...Eszterhas must depend on his own good will for the reader’s sympathy because this is a pretty dull-witted story all around...
...Charles Whiting...
...The Discarded Army: Veterans After Vietnam...
...average...
...It’s too bad Szulc couldn’t get firsthand information from his subject...
...It is indicative of Egerton’s disembodied, armchair tone that the most vivid chapter is an account of an academic conference on the New South...
...Doubleday, $7.95...
...But he also says enough that is fresh and provocative to make this short book worth reading...
...Rufus W. Youngblood...
...Stein & Day, $8.95...
...HeathLexington, $16...
...The late George Thayer has produced a comprehensive, perceptive, and often delightful look at our current methods of political finance...
...Malleson fits the timehonored tradition of dotty British reformers, offering his share of bizarre proposals but also talking a lot of good sense about how the medical profession goes wrong...
...Herman Kahn, ed...
...A rather routine biography of Herbert Stern, the 37-year-old U. S . Attorney whose anti-corruption crusade has bagged such New Jersey luminaries as former Rep...
...Much of the CIA story, though in this account by a New York Times reporter it continues to be entertaining, is all too familiar, and the details here about Mr...
...Take the glimpse he provides of industrialist J. Irwin Miller, who has hired a six-man staff to rationalize the 75-100 contributions he regularly makes to promising candidates around the country...
...Leonard S. Cottrell, Jr., James F. h o r t , Jr., Albert Hunter...
...Norton, $7.95...
...There is, nevertheless, much that is interesting in his analysis, particularly when he brings his experience as a Marine officer to bear on analyzing the effect of Vietnam on the military establishment...
...Quester...
...Remember Rufus Youngblood, the Secret Serviceman who used his body to shield Vice President Johnson when the shots rang out in Dallas 10 years ago...
Vol. 5 • January 1974 • No. 11
