Books Briefly
Books Briefly Rape of the West THE ANGRY WEST by Richard D. Lamm and Michael McCarthy Houghton Mifflin. 344 pp. $13.95. Ever since whites settled the Great Plains and Rocky Mountains, those...
...Arendt's interesting if undistinguished poems suggest another source of strength and insight in a life of learning and considerable suffering, from the early death of her father through her displacement as a German Jew first to Paris and then to the United States...
...The most visible revolt in the West, the Sagebrush Rebellion, is an exercise in futility, "a murky fusion of idealism and greed...
...Again and again, westerners have lashed out at their absentee landlords, without noticeably changing the balance of power...
...This is a tale of surviving suffused with the same fatalism of McGuane's third and best novel, Ninetytwo in the Shade...
...In his fifth novel, Thomas McGuane chronicles the decline of the Old West as seen through the eyes of one Patrick Fitzpatrick...
...Here her talent and courage were eventually acknowledged as she won the academic and public recognition she deserved...
...Ever since whites settled the Great Plains and Rocky Mountains, those western lands have been a colony for the East...
...6.50 paperback...
...Army tank captain and "fourth generation cowboy outsider," Fitzpatrick has an unshakable case of "sadness-for-no-reason" as he goes home to the family's Montana ranch to pick up where he left off before education and the service...
...In a cloud of gloom they conclude: "The dark riders are at the gates...
...14.50 hardcover...
...In this chronicle of modern times in the interior West, Colorado Governor Richard Lamm and his co-author Michael McCarthy are not hopeful about the outcome...
...Still, Lamm and McCarthy have done something worthwhile: They have written a readable introduction to a problem that is too much out of national sight and mind...
...What private seaboard bankers did not own, the Federal Government did: grazing and timber land and minerals under the prairies and forests...
...Uninspiring as a political guide to the future, The Angry West is also flawed by the virtual omission of American Indians from the story...
...Books Briefly Rape of the West THE ANGRY WEST by Richard D. Lamm and Michael McCarthy Houghton Mifflin...
...He meets the haunting Claire, who is married to a rude would-be Oklahoma oilman...
...Moral Teacher HANNAH ARENDT: FOR LOVE OF THE WORLD by Elizabeth Young-Bruehl Yale University Press...
...It is a biography of Hannah Arendt's books as well as of her life, including her happy marriage to Heinrich Blucher and her friendships in this country with W. H. Auden, Randall Jarrell, and Mary McCarthy...
...500 pp...
...Arendt, like George Orwell, remains one of the indispensable moral teachers of our time...
...227 pp...
...This is one of the best biographies available of a major Twentieth Century intellectual: well-written, carefully documented, sympathetic, and yet disinterested, in Matthew Arnold's sense of the word...
...He returns to find native hordes of "downtown ranchers," refugees from Ohio, and California New Life-stylers taking over...
...Informed discussions of her influential books, particularly The Origins of Totalitarianism and Eichmann in Jerusalem, and a synopsis of her dissertation on St...
...A love affair, doomed from the start, ensues...
...Based upon extensive records of Arendt's early background in East Prussia, it combines family history with reflections on her intellectual development, including her academic and personal associations with Martin Heidegger and Karl Jaspers...
...All that is left for westerners to do, they believe, is to ask for some say in the rate of resource exploitation, and for some money to help compensate for the disruption of their land and their lives...
...For McGuane the West is a metaphor of life and, in his words, "is a wreck," Nobody's Angel documents the destruction...
...Now, as a new wave of mining sweeps over the region, they are once more caught up in events not of their making...
...A Tale of Surviving NOBODY'S ANGEL by Thomas McGuane Random House...
...McGuane's ample stylistic talent, well-expressed humor, and love for horses and the land are everywhere apparent, but the total effect lacks substance...
...Augustine help to explain the storms and stresses they provoked...
Vol. 46 • December 1982 • No. 12
