New Resources
MEDIA Edwin R. Bayley, Joe McCarthy and the Press (Pantheon Books, 1981). $6.95, paper, 270 pgs. "Stand up, Ed, and let the people see what a communist looks like"--so went Joe McCarthy's...
...A critical view of present U.S...
...A chapter on the Lone Ranger explores the issues of conservation and natural rights of ownership and leads into a particularly interesting piece on heroes in popular culture...
...12.95, paper, 241 pgs...
...Clashes with the upper classes, the government and Church hierarchy ensued, leading Romero to play a central role in Salvadorean politics...
...Through an elaborate structure of evaluations, the authors examine UPI's ideological impact, and in particular, its impact on the Latin American press...
...17.50, cloth, 287 pgs...
...A] performance as spectacular as [McCarthy's was required] to move the guardians of objectivity to admit that the meaning of an event is as important as the facts of an event...
...Ezcurra and De Lella present a text analysis of 470 UPI dispatches released during a one month period in 1979, coinciding with the Pope's visit to Mexico and the Bishops' Conference...
...W. Norton & Co., Inc., 500 Fifth Avenue, New York, NY 10110...
...Orbis Books, Maryknoll Fathers, Maryknoll, NY 10545...
...This comprehensive and compelling collection of essays deals with the role of cultural politics in the mass media...
...foreign policy toward the less developed countries by one of the brightest of the new generation of foreign policy analysts, Feinberg's book argues that the United States overstates its ability to control change in the third world, fails to appreciate the influence of emergent states like Venezuela and Mexico and is too ready to assume that leftist movements and govemments are "irreconcilably hostile" to the United States and inevitably drawn to the Soviet Union...
...A representative study attributed 39% of all foreign news items in the Latin American press to UPI and 21% to AP...
...A final chapter illustrates the anti-socialist manipulation of children's literature in Allende's Chile...
...Brockman's sensitive depiction of the violence and suffering that wrack El Salvador dramatically illustrate Romero's tremendous work and influence...
...July/Aug 1983 UNITED STATES Richard Feinberg, The Intemperate Zone: The Third World Challenge to U.S...
...over 2,000 of its 6,500 subscribers are foreign publications, many of them Latin American...
...As Brockman illustrates, Romero showed a remarkable shrewdness in dealing with the opposition-particularly for a political novice...
...Pantheon Books, 201 East 50th Street, New York, NY 10022...
...CELADEC, Gral...
...CENTRAL AMERICA Jonathan L. Fried, et al., Guatemala in rebellion: unfinished History (Grove Press, 1983...
...Stand up, Ed, and let the people see what a communist looks like"--so went Joe McCarthy's introduction of the author to a Wisconsin audience...
...Grove Press, 196 West Houston Street, New York, NY 10014...
...7.95, paper, 334 pgs...
...Garzon 2267, Lima, Peru...
...The editors of this lucid and timely book, second in a series of Grove political readers on Central America, certainly know the country well...
...Dorfman begins with a discussion of the children's character, Babar the Elephant, as a prototype for the naive, euphemistic ideal of imperialism in the Europe of the 1930s...
...James R. Brockman, The Word Remains: A Life of Oscar Romero (Orbis Books, 1982...
...The authors' discussion of the "war of ideology," in reference to the controversy surrounding the theology of liberation is edifying, especially in view of the Pope's recent visit to Nicaragua...
...James Brockman has meticulously pieced together a vivid and moving portrait of Oscar Romero during his brief tenure as archbishop of San Salvador...
...Dorfman tends to use specific examples to abstract vast conclusions-but these essays are fascinating and provocative, if not thoroughly convincing...
...Foreign Policy (W...
...His book responds to the growing disquiet within traditional internationalist " policy circles about the confrontationalist style of the Reagan Administration and rearticulates the "accommodationism" of early trilateralism and the first years of the Carter Administration...
...Dorfman covers more familiar ground in essays on the vulgar infantilism of the world of Disney and its grown-up relative, the Reader's Digest...
...UPI has a formidable transnational influence...
...17.50, cloth...
...Ariel Dorfman, The Empire's Old Clothes: What the Lone Ranger, Babar and Other Innocent Heroes Do to Our Minds (Pantheon Books, 1983...
...Bayley's painstaking survey--of 129 dailies, 40 reporters who covered McCarthy and the voluminous body of literature on the phenomenon-4s enriched by his eyewitness insight...
...Their introductions to each section-stretching from the 1500s to Rios Montt-manage to be both scholarly and committed...
...Interesting reading, and especially important now as echoes of McCarthyism ring through current "debate...
...Nominated as the conservatives' safe choice for archbishop, Romero was abruptly swept into the political arena, and gradually came to regard himself as a "politicized priest...
...The work is certain to prove a valuable reference, as Guatemala joins Salvador in the spotlight...
...en Puebla: Manipulacidn ideol6gica de la III Conferencia General del Episcopado Latinoamericano (CELADEC, 1980...
...Romero was a profoundly religious man, and Brockman emphasizes his strong ties to the papacy, beginning with the seminarian's devotion to Pius XI, the Pope "who stood up to Hitler and Mussolini...
...The anthology is supplemented by a brief historical chronology and a selected bibliography...
...Feinberg urges a "neorealist" foreign policy that accommodates change, welcomes nationalism and "deflates ideology...
...6.95, paper, 222 pgs...
...Believing that "McCarthy's tactics produced lasting changes in the media," Bayley says one legacy is "the redefinition of the principle of objectivity...
...W. Norton & Co., 1983...
...Focus lies with the local roots of the conflict...
...Ana Maria Ezcurra and Cayetano De Lella, La U.P.I...
...Write for price, paper, 351 pgs...
Vol. 17 • July 1983 • No. 4
