Books Briefly
Books Briefly run for the oval room . . . they can't corner us there! by Bill Sanders (Alpha Press, 10721 West Capitol Drive, Suite 201, Milwaukee, Wisconsin 53222. 224 pp. $7.95 cloth. $3.95...
...188 pp...
...6.95 paperback...
...Includes maps of the Congressional districts, photographs of the incumbents, and the telephone numbers of your Representative and Senator should you want to give them a buzz about an issue...
...Bill Sanders, who has shot up in recent years as one of the nation's foremost cartoonists, has put together many of his brilliant best in this handsome book...
...The precedents, Breckenridge finds, are by no means one-sided...
...In our time life is mocking art, but Sanders convincingly demonstrates that he is more than equal to the challenge...
...Robert O. Blanchard, chairman of the department of communications at the American University in Washington, D.C., has compiled a series of readings that range from 1789 debates on press coverage of Congress to Spiro Agnew's pre-resignation tirade against television's "incandescent and damaging presence" at the Ervin Committee hearings...
...Recommended for any serious student of the First Amendment...
...the executive privilege: presidential control over information, by Adam Carlyle Breckenridge (University of Nebraska Press...
...10.75 paperback...
...There is a long history of controversy, dating back to George Washington's Administration, over what information, if any, the President may properly withhold from Congress and the people...
...This concise but careful history and analysis suggests that current and urgent arguments over executive privilege, as well as those likely to arise in the future, are less a matter of "rights" than of political exigencies and constantly shifting power arrangements within the Federal structure...
...Some pressing problems of public policy have been pushed off the front pages (and out of people's consciousness) by understandable preoccupation with the ramifications of Watergate...
...regardless of constitutional or statutory claims and interpretations, strong Presidents have managed to operate with considerable secrecy, while weak ones have been compelled to yield information they would have preferred not to divulge...
...Congress and the News Media explores questions of conflict, cooperation, and collusion between politicians and the press...
...But the problems remain, and when we refocus our attention on them, this volume provides much useful background...
...congress and the news media, edited by Robert O. Blanchard (Hastings House...
...18.50 cloth...
...Twenty-five per cent larger than the 1972 edition, the new Almanac sets forth the voting records, the committee assignments, the key personal data, and the elections record of each of the 435 House and 100 Senate members...
...It even sets forth each state's share of Federal outlays...
...The political experts call it an invaluable reference work, and they are right...
...As George E. Reedy, former Presidential press secretary and now dean of the College of Journalism at Marquette University, notes in his preface: these should be—and indeed are —difficult times for cartoonists, whose art "is fundamentally one of legitimate exaggeration...
...1240 pp...
...In addition it provides economic, historic, and political highlights for each state and for each House district...
...He has supplemented his cartoons, which often carry a laugh and nearly always pack a charge of dynamite, with some noteworthy essays on our time of madness and sadness...
...the almanac of american politics, 1974, by Michael Barone, Grant Ujifusa, and Douglas Matthews (Gambit...
...freedom-of-information" laws and their (dubious) impact on the flow of information...
...The author, a professor of political science at the University of Nebraska, notes that—President Nixon's claim to the contrary notwithstanding—"there is no specific constitutional provision granting the President the power to refuse to give information or to deny testimony...
...506 pp...
...3.95 paper...
...contradictions, real or fancied, between rights of free press and fair trial...
Vol. 38 • July 1974 • No. 7
