BOOKS IN BRIEF
Books In Brief OUT OF THE KITCHEN—INTO THE WAR, by Susan B. Anthony II. Stephen Day. $2.50. A fervent and bossy plea from Susan B. Anthony's grandniece, a Washington newspaper writer, for greater...
...An admirer of Sweden's efficiency and beauty and married to a Swedish girl, he is skeptical of the country's waiting game...
...A laudatory survey of the development of American household inventions, retailing, and merchandising, Carl Crow's new book goes into some detail about the crude tools the colonists used and the gradual emergence of nails, farm tools, clocks, and sewing machines...
...Although this book is too badly organized in some spots to constitute good reading it should be read and kept on hand for future reference...
...Interesting old-fashioned advertisements...
...Doubleday...
...Sweden, he believes, is callously selfish as well as small and powerful...
...It's the best book available on this subject and perhaps is the only one in which such a comprehensive and objective study of the various farm pressure groups and their aims can be found...
...Now on the staff of Newsweek, Joesten has been a correspondent in Scandinavian countries and escapted from a Swedish concentration camp late in '40...
...THE GREAT AMERICAN CUSTOMER, by Carl Crow...
...Crow believes they performed a social service by bringing people "honest goods at honest prices...
...The pioneers in the retail business come off very well...
...It might carry more authority if the young author were more familiar with the duties and responsibilities of women who make houses going concerns...
...while the country hates war, it has not hesitated to produce and sell the implements of war to the Axis...
...Doran...
...Harper...
...A fervent and bossy plea from Susan B. Anthony's grandniece, a Washington newspaper writer, for greater participation of women in the war effort...
...Most of the information now available is put out by someone with an axe to grind...
...STALWART SWEDEN, by Joachim Joesten...
...Should an Allied victory in Europe become imminent, he is inclined to think Sweden might move into "Norway to keep Russia out of the peninsula and to establish control there...
...The book reminds us again of the remarkable paucity of good objective reporting on farm developments...
...THE FARM BLOC, by Wesley McCune, Doubleday, Doran and Company, Inc...
Vol. 7 • November 1943 • No. 47
