Books Briefly
Books Briefly TALES OF ITT: AN INSIDER'S REPORT, by Thomas S: Burns (Houghton Mifflin. 246 pp. $7.95). Written by a former vice president of the International Telephone and Telegraph Company,...
...10...
...9.95...
...NIXON'S GOOD DEED: WELFARE REFORM, by Vincent J. and Vee Burke (Columbia University Press...
...10...
...The article, "Last of the Red Hot Fixers," in the November issue was adapted from Tales of ITT...
...252 pp...
...His disclosures of how Dita Beard practiced her arcane act of lobbying and how Representative Bob Wilson of San Diego served as errand boy, fixer, and mouthpiece for ITT are alone worth the price of this book...
...Their history of Nixon's good deed is rated by specialists in poverty studies as one of the best books on the politics of welfare...
...Thus, the future of the Arab world is by no means clear and will involve a struggle between conflicting models of economic development...
...As Frank Fraser Darling notes in the Foreword, the essence of her approach is that "all landscape influences all aspects of human life and psyche...
...The essential is a study of the good and bad features and the natural vegetation to achieve a linking element that ties the landscape into a unified whole...
...Although FAP legislation was defeated, its sequel survives in Supplemental Security Income, a new Federal program which aids needy persons who are old, blind, or disabled...
...This delightful book was written during the last year of Nan Fair/brother's life, and readers of her other books (including Men and Gardens and New Lives, New Landscapes) will find it an appropriate epitaph...
...While it is not easy to read, Islam and Capitalism is a thoughtprovoking volume of deep scholarship...
...Burns pulls few punches in this bizarre recital of the skulduggery practiced by one of the largest, most powerful, and most grasping of the multi-national corporate empires...
...8.95...
...Rodinson argues that Islam is not necessarily opposed, as many have held, to either development or to capitalism...
...AROUSED BY BOOKS, by Anatole Broyard (Random House...
...Unfortunately there is no coherence to the collection...
...Books Briefly TALES OF ITT: AN INSIDER'S REPORT, by Thomas S: Burns (Houghton Mifflin...
...Broyard is a regular reviewer for The New York Times, and this volume is a collection of his reviews of books on current topics ranging from fiction to the social sciences...
...Broyard is an excellent reviewer, and he gives the reader a feeling for the books as well as an idea about their contents...
...Gardeners, new householders, urban planners, and anyone interested in good design will enjoy Nan Fairbrother* s scrutiny of landscape design "as an art form, a craft, a social necessity...
...He reviews modern Egyptian history and claims that the military has been the key element in Egyptian politics since the emergence of Egypt as a modern political entity...
...Niggardly as it was ($1,600 a year for a family of four) the plan was a new departure for Presidential proposals in the welfare field...
...243 pp...
...THE NATURE OF LAN DSC APE DESIGN, by Nan Fairbrother (Knopf...
...It is an interesting argument, but Perlmutter carries it beyond his evidence, and his book is a onedimensional explanation of a complex society...
...When Vincent Burke, who began this book, died, his wife Vee, also an investigative reporter specializing in welfare reform, completed it...
...234 pp...
...EGYPT:THE PRAETORIAN STATE,by Amos Perlmutter (Transaction Books...
...The plan foundered in Congress, partly due to Administration neglect and partly due to opposition from both liberal and conservative politicians and groups...
...To the amazement of nearly all social reformers and the chagrin of some, President Richard Nixon proposed a family assistance program (FAP) in 1969 that contained basic elements of a guaranteed income plan...
...8.95...
...Nasser's revolution and Sadat's present powerful position both represent military initiatives...
...ISLAM AND CAPITALISM, by Maxime Rodinson (Pantheon Books...
...She urges planners to avoid "paper abstractions" and to accept the fact that few sites are ideal...
...Written by a former vice president of the International Telephone and Telegraph Company, this book is an extraordinarily revealing "inside story" of the corporate world in action, notably here the ITT...
...308 pp...
...Professor Amos Perlmutter, an expert on both the Middle East and on the military in developing countries, argues in this book that Egypt is an example of a state in which the military is the key and almost the only group which has access to power...
...Professor Maxime Rodinson, one of the world's leading experts on Islam and a faculty member at the Sorbonne, has written a comprehensive Marxist analysis of the mix between religion and economics in the Muslim world...
...344 pp...
Vol. 38 • December 1974 • No. 12
