Books Briefly
Books Briefly amnesty? by Arlie Schardt, William A. Rusher, and Mark O. Hatfield (Sun River Press. 148 pp. $5.95). Schardt, associate director of the Washington office of the American Civil...
...8.95...
...Pynchon does not quite convey the sense in 760 pages...
...In the process, he has produced a capsule history of human aesthetics and a powerful demonstration of the validity of the Marxist tradition as a critical approach to our culture and our time...
...That it contributes more to the Canadian GNP than does any other province...
...To attempt to convey the sense of Gravity's Rainbow in a paragraph is a pointless task...
...Politics as Usual," which appeared in the December issue of The Progressive, was adapted from one chapter of Mankiewicz's sagacious and lively book...
...A Quebec native provides a brief but illuminating account of the political evolution of a terrorist revolutionary into a socially minded Quebecois leader who now is striving to create his revolution through the electoral process...
...In the most devastating book published so far on the many sins of Richard Nixon—beginning in 1948 when he won a seat in Congress by devious methods and culminating with Watergate and the White House cover-up —Frank Mankiewicz flavors an impressive documentation of the sordid Nixon record with the wit and style that made him so highly quotable by media people when he was Senator George McGovern's political director in the 1972 campaign...
...This remarkable novel has something to do, perhaps, with wartime Britain and postwar Germany, with Nazi rockets, with every imaginable (and some unimaginable) kind of sex, with the human condition, with a cosmic, historic conspiracy in which we all are unwitting victims or, what's worse, unwitting accomplices...
...Revolutions destroy artists...
...first rough draft, by Chalmers M. Roberts (Praeger...
...211 pp...
...Roberts's forty-year career in journalism—he prefers to call it "newspapering"—began in Depression America, encompassed prewar, wartime, and postwar foreign tours, and concluded with a couple of decades of covering the high and mighty for The Washington Post...
...marxism and art: essays classic and contemporary, edited by Maynard Solomon (Knopf...
...Try, if you have the time and patience, to figure it out for yourself...
...The root issue is Quebec independence...
...Senator Hatfield presents the case for conditional amnesty, with qualifications for particular categories and cases...
...By turns hilarious and unbearably sad, incisive and impenetrably arcane, Gravity's Rainbow is a masterwork of utterly paranoid fiction...
...15...
...The debate may not change minds, but in addition to the heat it brings to the discussion, it sheds considerable light...
...6.95...
...760 pp...
...The selections are superb, and Maynard Solomon, a music critic and authority on Marx and Freud, provides helpful historical and critical commentary...
...the truth about kent state: a challenge to the american conscience, by Peter Davies and the Board of Church and Society of the United Methodist Church (Farrar Straus Giroux...
...Did you know that Quebec Province is larger than the combined areas of France, Italy, Great Britain, and West Germany...
...Rusher, publisher of National Review, takes an equally adamant position against amnesty...
...Artists make revolutions...
...If it is fiction...
...He proves the case, beyond reasonable doubt, with respect to the four students who were gunned down at Kent State Uni(Continued on Page 66) (Continued from Page 63) versity by members of the Ohio National Guard on May 4, 1970...
...10 cloth...
...This is a passionate tract, but it is also a carefully-argued brief, providing persuasive documentation, much of it photographic, for the case that the killers of Kent State must still be brought to trial...
...676 pp...
...356 pp...
...Two facts that make one think...
...This classic conflict is explored and explained from many perspectives by the thirty-six authors-—from Marx to Malraux and Marcuse—whose works are excerpted here...
...10...
...10 cloth...
...3.50 paper...
...4.95 paper...
...He provides few startling disclosures or profound insights, but this book is studded with the lively observations of an able reporter who had the knack, always, of being where the action was...
...pierre vallieres: the revolutionary process in quebec: a political biography of the author of white niggers of America, by Nicholas M. Regush (The Dial Press...
...242 pp...
...Schardt, associate director of the Washington office of the American Civil Liberties Union, comes down squarely on the side of amnesty for all who tangled with the law in protesting American involvement in Vietnam...
...I did my reporting and writing as I saw it," says Chalmers Roberts in this book of memoirs, "and to hell with those whose feelings it hurt or whose glee it provided...
...gravity's rainbow, by Thomas Pynchon (Viking...
...239 pp...
...Anyone struggling with the pros and cons of this tangled issue will benefit from reading the three-sided debate...
...Regush presents a sympathetic view of Vallieres, but maintains a high level of objectivity with his verbatim interviews with Vallieres and considerable documentation from the manifestoes of the Front de Liberation du Quebec (FLQ), the violent revolutionary movement of which Vallieres was the principal theoretician, and the Parti Quebecois, the electoral party of which he is now a member...
...Ours is a Government of men and not of laws, says Peter Davies—a Government that will, when it suits its purposes, countenance cold-blooded murder...
...Davies and the Board of Church and Society of the United Methodist Church, which sponsored his three-year investigation, are devoting all royalties from this book "to the continuing quest for justice at Kent State...
...perfectly clear: nixon from whittier to Watergate, by Frank Mankiewicz (Quadrangle...
Vol. 38 • February 1974 • No. 2
