Political Book Notes
Political Book Notes Public affairs books to be published in March The Ambivalence of Abortion. Linda Bird Francke. Random House, $10. The Anti-Trust Paradox: A Policy at War With Itself....
...Doubleday, $8.95...
...Scribble, Scribble: The Media According to Nora Ephron...
...Vernon A. Walters...
...He doesn't stumble into booby traps," Reston wrote, "He digs them to size, studies them carefully and then jumps...
...Not on your life...
...Martin Mayer...
...I suspect Mosley is led to exaggerate her influence because, as he weaves in and out of the doings of these remarkable siblings, Eleanor is the only one he finds thoroughly admirable...
...The Politics of Prosecution: Jim Thompson, Richard Nixon, Marje Everett and the Trial of Otto Kerner...
...Doubleday, $12.95...
...Hate Don't Make No Noise: Anatomy of a New Ghetto...
...Van Nostrand Reinhold, $12.95...
...Prentice-Hall, $9.95...
...James Eisenstein...
...Leonard Reed Four Arguments for the Eliminating of Television...
...Gordon Brook-Shepherd...
...Dial, $12.95...
...Life's Second Half: The Dynamics of Aging...
...Peppered with anecdotes and illuminated with glimpses of the ways of the mighty (for example, Prime Minister Anthony Eden in an uncontrollable snit hurling an inkpot at a colleague and, in tum, getting a wastebasket dumped on his head), Dulles, in spite of the unpleasant qualities of its most forceful character, is as enjoyable as it is informative...
...Univ...
...A storm petrel is a bird whose presence warns of coming turbulence, and in this fascinating book the author deals with the two waves of Soviet defections that preceded the great exodus of the postwar period...
...Norton, $8.95...
...During World War II he directed the European operations of the Office of Strategic Services...
...Allen was the fun-loving Rover Boy...
...by presidents, prime ministers and chairmen of political committees...
...Crown, $12.95...
...Ralph Glasser...
...of Chicago, $12.50...
...Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, $12.50 each...
...The Guggenheims: An American Epic...
...Oscar Lewis, Ruth M. Lewis, Susan M. Rigdon...
...Univ...
...Westview Press, $10...
...If you are going to read just one biography in 1978, consider this triple-header...
...Zillah R. Eisenstein...
...The Marxian Legacy...
...However, neither the authenticity of detail nor the prefatory statement, "Events of the kind described in the book can and do occur in real life," justifies the mislabeling of the book as a "documentary...
...Massive retaliation" against Soviet probings proved an empty threat...
...In Europe the cockpit of East and West conflict was West Berlin, and its affairs were controlled from Washington by Eleanor Lansing Dulles...
...Presidential Impeachment...
...Eugene Kennedy...
...Stein and Day, $8.95...
...Through Allen Dulles, the younger brother, the family consolidated its control over the external policies of the United States...
...Monthly Review Press, $16.50...
...John Foster Dulles was a Secretary of State so powerful and implacable that no government in what was then fervently referred to as the Free World would have dared to take a decision of international importance without first getting his nod of approval...
...Alfred A. "Knopf, $10...
...Stein and Day, $8.95...
...Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, $8.95...
...China's Economy...
...As director of the Central Intelligence Agency he ran his own planes, recruited his own soldiers and initiated his own military campaigns...
...A Pretty Good Club: The Founding Fathers of the U.S...
...The Cost of Catastrophic IDness...
...John E. Krier, Edmund Ursin...
...Dulles' uncanny ability to alienate friendly countries led James Reston to characterize him as "a supreme expert in the art of diplomatic blundering...
...Capitalist Patriarchy and the Case for Socialist Feminism...
...Urizen, $15...
...Pica Press, $15...
...Unleashing Chiang Kaishek" [to invade the Chinese mainland1 turned into an international joke...
...2, Willing...
...Etta Revesz...
...Christopher .Howe...
...Hank Messick...
...Lorenz...
...Carl Bode...
...1945: Year Zero...
...The author of this bitter and vivid portrayal of life in a federally subsidized low-income housing development did her homework the hard way-by working for several years in a California "slum clearance" housing project...
...Norton, $8.95...
...None of these activities kept Allen Dulles from building a vast network of friends and girlfriends...
...of California, $15.95...
...He conspired with the German generals, intelligence services, and the Gestapo itself to undermine Hitler, sent spies into Hungary and Rumania, organized sabotage teams in occupied France, ferried men and supplies to Italian partisans while simultaneously negotiating with Italian royalists...
...Hannah Arendt...
...After the war he was the all-powerful spymaster...
...Norton, $10.95...
...C. Northcote Parkinson, Nigel Rowe...
...Thomas C. Cochran...
...Doubleday, $8.95...
...Morrow, $11.95...
...The Prodigal South Returns to Power...
...The Inner Editor: The Offense and Defense of Communication...
...Death and Dying...
...Praesidio, $12.95...
...Pseudoscience and Mental Ability: The Origins and Fallacies of the IQ Controversy...
...The first of these waves, 1928-30, stemmed largely from disillusioned idealism...
...The Net and the Quest: Patterns of Community and How They Can Survive Progress...
...John H. Davis...
...Alfred A. Knopf, $7.95...
...Going to the brink and looking into the abyss," as he proudly described one of his maneuvers, became derisively known as "brinksmanship...
...Jethro K. Lieberman...
...The British, into whose hands Bajanov delivered himself, viewed with some distaste this "turncoat," and the various British bureaucracies bickered over who would get stuck with the cost of transporting him from India to Britain...
...Joseph F. Wall...
...Dick Howard...
...Conquer and Colonize...
...Counsel for the United States: U.S...
...the emigre turned out to be Lenin, en route to Russia to make a separate peace with Germany...
...After harrowing escapes, Orlov turned up in the office of Francis Biddle, the U.S...
...John R. Labovitz...
...Martin's, $8.95...
...The smaller of the two hunters turned his rifle on his companion, telling him he knew he was a police agent sent to watch him...
...The Builders: Houses, People, Neighborhoods, Governments, Money...
...But the powerful intellect Dulles brought to the job reminds one of how a wit described Robert A. Taft-"the best mind in the Senate until he made it up...
...Iowa: A History...
...The Parties: Republicans and Democrats in This Century...
...The Storm Petrels: The Flight of the First Soviet Defectors...
...Silent Missions...
...The Declining Significance of Race: Blacks and Changing American Institutions...
...Donald Biggs...
...After a Dulles blooper in Asia, Winston Churchill said, "Foster Dulles is the only case I know of a bull who carries his china shop with him...
...Fred Ward...
...Truman relented, much to his subsequent regret, for Dulles became an inveterate leaker of items that reflected nobly on himself and poorly on others...
...Boris Shragin...
...A war or so later, when Rebecca West was asked whether she had been one of Allen's mistresses, she replied, "Alas, no...
...Viking, $10...
...Sandol Stoddard...
...Leonard Mosley...
...To be sure, the term "defector" had not yet come into use...
...Univ...
...Norton, $8.95...
...Viking, $10...
...John Lukacs...
...First, Eleanor...
...Inside Cuba Today...
...Pennsylvania: A History...
...Liberation of the captive nations of Eastern Europe" encouraged some brave Hungarians to revolt which turned to tragedy when the expected American aid never came...
...Pollution and Policy: A Case Essay on California and Federal Experience with Motor Vehicle Air Pollution, 1940-1975...
...Martin Wei...
...Yale, $15...
...During all but the final months of the Eisenhower era it was the Dulles family which managed and manipulated the foreign affairs of the United States...
...Eisenhower ran for President on a foreign policy program designed by Dulles, who became his Secretary of State...
...Houghton Mifflin, $8.95...
...1, Thinking...
...Chou: An Informal Biography of China's Legendary Chou En-Lai...
...Martin's, $8.95...
...Morrow, $14.95...
...British Appeasement in the 1930's...
...Monthly Review Press, $13.95...
...Robert H. Bork...
...Pantheon, $10...
...Communicate: Parkinson's Formula for Business Survival...
...As a young spy in Switzerland during the first World War he rebuffed, in favor of a pretty date, a Russian emigre who urgently insisted on seeing him...
...William R. Rock...
...Attorneys in the Political and Legal Systems...
...Jerry Brown: The Man on the White Horse...
...Jerry Mander...
...Mind Control...
...He then proceeded to escort the agent across the border into Turkey from where, pursued all the way by agents of the OGPU, the two embarked on a hazardous three-month journey to the relative safety of Europe...
...Keeping Kennedy's Promise: The Dnmet Hope of the New Frontier...
...Two knowledgeable insiders tell what went wrong with the Peace Corps and how it could still be saved...
...It was Allen Dulles who, almost thwarted by a Harry Truman new to the presidency and afraid to offend Stalin, arranged the secret surrender of German armies in Italy...
...Devin-Adair, $8.95...
...John McCook Roots...
...By contrast, just about nobody liked John Foster Dulles...
...Peter Schrag...
...Himself: The Life and Times of Mayor Richard J. Daley...
...The second wave, 1936-38, consisted of men fleeing the terrible purges then wracking the Soviet Union...
...Jerome Ellison...
...Brook-Shepherd doesn't fault the British for blowing it: "To have sensed in 1928 the enormous implications both of Bajanov's fligh t and of the information he brought with him, one would have needed a feel for the future in one's bones...
...Nora Ephron...
...Truman summed up a large body of opinion in his reaction to the suggestion that he give Dulles a post: "What, that bastard...
...A State Department desk officer, as she was, simply does not have that measure of authority during crises...
...John Wiley & Sons, $12.95...
...It is a novel, the impact of which is undermined by a thin plot and characters out of Damon Runyan...
...Norton, $10.95...
...The Challenge of the Spirit...
...Foreign Service...
...Norton, $7.95/$3.95...
...The average spy novel is thin broth compared with the exploits of the man upon whom so many of them are based...
...In the 1950s the name Dulles was "uttered like an incantation or muttered like an imprecation...
...attorney general, showed his credentials and requested asylum...
...Basic, $15...
...Neighbors: Living the Revolution-An Oral History of Contemporary Cuba...
...One of our heroes, the author of The Tyranny of the Experts, has come up with a disappointingly thin version of what's wrong with lawyers...
...Kevin Lowther, C. Payne Lucas...
...Inside the Fourth Reich...
...Many of those who fled to the supposed safety of London, Paris, or New York were, like Trotsky, tracked down and murdered by the long arm of the Soviet police...
...Harry S. Dent...
...Erich Erdstein with Barbara Bean...
...Henry Fairlie...
...In the bitter words of Soviet propagandist Ilya Ehrenburg, if Allen ever got to heaven he would be found "mining the clOUds, shooting up the stars and slaughtering the angels...
...Basic, $18...
...The Life of the Mind: Vol...
...The time was 1928, the place a hunting area in the Soviet Union near the Turkish border...
...Howard Birnbaum with Michael Schwartz...
...Biddle, whose bones yielded to...
...Crisis at the Bar: The Unethical Ethics of Lawyers, and What to Do About It...
...Jeffrey M. Blum...
...J. Stephan Jellinek...
...Richard G. Benton...
...The Hospice Movement: A Better Way of Caring for the Dying...
...Johns Hopkins, $15...
...Dulles: A Biography of Eleanor, Allen and John Foster Dulles and Their Family Net· work...
...The virtual free hand Dulles had in foreign policy turned out to be mostly thumbs...
...Allen, who apparently had a different destination in mind, once said he would tip his hat to the devil to get a clearer picture of conditions in hell...
...Norton, $15...
...Caroline House, $10.95...
...The French, in whose country he eventually landed (and still lives), showed greater astuteness and were, therefore, the first to get the inside story of the Stalin-Trotsky power struggle as well as detailed information on Soviet techniques of espionage and subversion...
...Boris Bajanov, personal assistant to Joseph Stalin and secretary to the Politburo, had defected...
...of Il1inois, $15...
...One who escaped murder was General Alexander Orlov, the highest Soviet secret police official ever to defect...
...Maryland: A His~ory...
...William Julius Wilson...
...J.D...
...Lexington, $12.95...
Vol. 10 • March 1978 • No. 1
