Books Briefly
Books Briefly presidential impeachment: an american dilemma, by Walter Ehrlich (Forum Press. 172 pp. $2.95 paper). No timelier book could be conceived than this concise, fact-packed paperback by a...
...More important, this moving book is an absorbing account of rebuilding a life after the murder of the Lindbergh's first baby, the regenerating engrossment in a second son, the adjustments between two distinctly different individuals and their distinctly different families, the death of a sister, the Hauptman trial, and the hectic departure to England for a degree of privacy...
...6.95...
...He kept a journal in those years, and it appears—refurbished and with supplementary reflections—as the substance of this book...
...The essays on India and Japan are particularly interesting in that they provide a useful background to current problems...
...Prescott, a book reviewer for Newsweek, was a Harvard undergraduate twenty years ago, a member of the much mourned "silent generation...
...12.95...
...6.95...
...Lippincott...
...Coward, McCann & Geoghegan...
...remaking asia: essays on the American uses of power, edited by Mark Selden (Pantheon Books...
...To his surprise, he ended up investigating the riddle of why they were built at all...
...Asia's problems and the American role in them extend far beyond Vietnam...
...In Woman's Estate (1971), she addressed herself primarily to a Marxist-feminist analysis of the key structures of women's situation: production, reproduction, sexuality, and the socialization of children...
...it was just hung over...
...The author of this handsome volume, a physicist and recognized Egyptologist, started out to study the technological problems of pyramid building...
...Included are the texts of essential documents, a commentary by former Representative Thomas Curtis of Missouri, who puts a hopeless case in the best possible light...
...He learned to look at academic stuffiness with humorous insight...
...Ehrlich believes we confront questions that reach to "the workability and viability of the Constitution and the American system of government," and his book should help readers arrive at the answers to those questions...
...a darkening green: notes from the silent generation, by Peter S. Prescott...
...After a frustrating evening with a black co-worker, he sadly comments, "The message from minorities today is that they expect to be respected for what they are and not for how close they come to being what we are...
...An honest and engrossing report...
...Little of the outside world, or even of Harvard's intellectual life, intrudes...
...This is a difficult book to read, and a difficult book to dismiss...
...Part of the fascination of this third volume of Anne Morrow Lindbergh's diaries and letters from 1933 to 1935 is that readers of her fine first book, North to the Orient, will learn personal impressions not revealed in her earlier record of that long pioneering trip with Charles Lindbergh and her inner experiences as the radio operator of their tiny plane...
...In psychoanalysis Mitchell finds a base for understanding the unconscious and sexuality, and hence a tool for the cultural/ideological struggle against patriarchy...
...This analysis has been useful to movement thought, although some re-examination of her assumptions has begun to appear...
...This slight, charming memoir suggests that the silent generation wasn't really silent...
...He lived frugally on what he earned and was "impressed by the yawning gap" between his blue-collar wages and professional salary (and perquisites...
...No timelier book could be conceived than this concise, fact-packed paperback by a legal and constitutional historian at the University of Missouri...
...8.95...
...He tasted the loss of self-esteem that joblessness inflicts...
...psychoanalysis and feminism 1 freud, reich, laing, and women, by Juliet Mitchell (Pantheon...
...352 pp...
...3.45 paper...
...222 pp...
...252 pp...
...The underlying thrust of the volume is that America's role in Asia has been much to the detriment of the countries involved...
...224 pp...
...While he drew no big conclusions from his anonymous weeks in a different world, he achieved what he had hoped for: that through a glimpse of working lives he would see his own academic world with a fresh eye...
...His conclusion is that, while they were used as tombs for the pharaohs, their primary purpose was to serve as a kind of giant WPA project, which unified urban and rural Egypt, centralized the government, and created a new form of society...
...7.95...
...381 pp...
...blue-collar journal: a college president's sabbatical, by John R. Coleman (J.P...
...In an unusual "sabbatical" of two months, economist John R. Coleman, president of Hav-erford College and a bank board chairman, worked as a ditchdigger in Atlanta, a sand-wich-and-salad maker in a Boston restaurant, and a garbage collector in a Washington suburb...
...all are written from a radical perspective...
...A good teacher is a bit of a ham...
...Most of the essays are we^l documented and carefully argued...
...The self-portrait that emerges is one of a sensitive, self-conscious young man who tried hard to be candid with himself...
...Readers of Harold Nicolson, who, as biographer of AML's father, Dwight Morrow, appears often in these pages, will learn facets of the British writer not disclosed in his Diaries and the literary oddity of the season, Portrait of a Marriage...
...Professor Ehrlich provides a thorough, dispassionate review of the philosophic, constitutional, and legal issues involved in the impeachment process, details the relevant precedents, and summarizes the Nixon actions that may meet the constitutional test of "high crimes and misdemeanors...
...Most compelling of all is the groping exploration of a sensitive woman for her selfhood...
...These huge heaps of stone," he concludes, "mark the place where man invented the state...
...instead, there is much morbid introspection about the author's collegiate sex life (sparse) and his friends' drinking habits (gross...
...the riddle of the pyramids, by Kurt Mendelssohn (Praeger...
...Illustrated...
...Chapters focus on Japan, India, Thailand, the Philippines, and the Asian Development Bank, as well as Vietnam...
...456 pp...
...locked rooms and open doors, by Anne Morrow Lindbergh (Harcourt Brace Jo-vanovich...
...Juliet Mitchell is a central figure in the attempt to develop theory and strategy for achieving, and for distinguishing between, the political revolution which can bring women equality and the cultural revolution which is required for full human liberation...
...Her new book will undoubtedly cause even more discussion, since it challenges American feminist rejection of Freud aS both mistaken and dangerous...
...There's going to be more pain on both sides before that message is heard...
...In this edited book, radical historian Selden has brought together essays dealing with the American role in Asia...
Vol. 38 • June 1974 • No. 6
