Books Briefly
Books Briefly Feminism and Race WOMEN, RACE & CLASS by Angela Y. Davis Random House. 271 pp. $13.50. In a brisk, clear narrative, Angela Davis tells how the feminist movement over the years has...
...Few of the Presidents besides Lincoln were noted for wit and humor, but Calvin Coolidge at times provided surprises...
...More recently, racism has crept into white women's campaigns against rape and for reproductive rights...
...a succession of reorganizations solved no problems, and the aged Hutchins, one of the most remarkable men that modern America has produced, saw his vision collapse in shenanigans high and low...
...410 pp...
...much more—about the late Robert Maynard Hutchins's ill-starred Center for the Study of Democratic Institutions, palatially housed on a Santa Barbara hilltop until its founder's death in 1977, when its shrunken corpse fell into the hands of the University of California, on the margin of whose Santa Barbara campus it is now much less palatially housed and much more modestly operated as a think tank maintaining the format, if no longer the fame, of Hutchins's "civilization of the dialogue...
...Finally, she describes blacks of various nationalities in Cairo...
...Before the Civil War, abolitionists and feminists were often the same people...
...The book appears to have been subsidized by Jubal R. Parten, the Texas oil man who served as the Center's board chairman until he broke with Hutchins in one of several administrative crises...
...She eloquently describes how her son's rapid development, emotional and political, frightened her as much as thrilled her...
...Her brief and astute profiles of the famous— Billie Holiday and Martin Luther King, Jr...
...A brief, informative biographical sketch precedes the selections for each President...
...After he left the presidency of the University of Chicago, whose radical reorganization established his renown, Hut-chins spent a couple of years with the Ford Foundation and another four directing the Fund for the Republic's fight against Mc-Carthyism...
...This fourth installment of her autobiography captures Maya Angelou's flowering as a political activist and feminist...
...Not many people will be interested in the uninspired, but sturdy, detail with which Frank Kelly (long an officer of the Center) recites its few triumphs and its many woes...
...there was as much bickering, posturing, special pleading, infighting, and backbiting as there was dialectic...
...In a brisk, clear narrative, Angela Davis tells how the feminist movement over the years has made, or failed to make, common cause with blacks and members of the working class...
...In less than a decade she moved from singing and acting to work as an administrator of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference and marriage to an African freedom fighter...
...She portrays some leading lights from the black intelligentsia, those with significant and often unheralded talent, too often accompanied by an obsession with whites and their cultural domination...
...When a captain of industry was proposed as a member of Coolidge's cabinet, an associate objected, "But, Mr...
...White House Chitchat PRESIDENTIAL ANECDOTES by Paul F. Boiler Jr...
...President, that fellow's a son of a bitch...
...When Millard Fillmore was offered an honorary degree by Oxford University, he declined on the grounds that "no man should, in my judgment, accept a degree he cannot read...
...He has shortened and paraphrased most of them and identifies the origin of each entry...
...12.50...
...Davis's analysis is distinguished not by originality but by clarity and graceful use of speeches, memoirs, and other historical materials...
...This book tells all you ever wanted to know—and more...
...A question as to the author's reliability—or at least an eyebrow— might be raised by the fact that Parten is the only person in the book, Hutchins included, who emerges with a whole skin...
...But later, suffragists used racism and.clas-sism to forge support for themselves, arguing that white women voters could offset the political power of blacks and members of the immigrant working class...
...Well," Coolidge replied, "don't you think they ought to be represented, too...
...Oxford University Press...
...money ran short and finally out...
...19.95...
...In 1959 he thought to realize his vision of a continuing discussion of the basic issues of society by assembling a permanent coterie of great minds...
...272 pp...
...From diaries, letters, biographies, autobiographies, and other sources, Paul F. Boiler has culled this absorbing collection of anecdotes about our forty Presidents, from George Washington to Ronald Reagan...
...Portraits in Black THE HEART OF A WOMAN by Maya Angelou Random House...
...The minds he assembled were not the greatest...
...14.95...
...722 pp...
...Failed Vision COURT OF REASON by Frank K. Kelly The Free Press...
...among them—are the diamonds in a book of gems...
Vol. 46 • May 1982 • No. 5
