Political Book Notes
poltical book notes Adopting the Older Child. Claudia L. Jewett. Harvard, $1 1.95. Affair. Anthony Amato, Katherine Edwards. Putnam’s, $7.95. This book represents some new step down the road to...
...Basic, $10...
...Arlington, $9.95...
...Basic, $8.95...
...Don’t expect any judgment or analysis here, because there isn’t any...
...Little, Brown, $15...
...On Moral Fiction...
...Charles A. Fecher...
...Mocking Justice: America's Biggest Drug Scandal Hamilton E. Crown, $8.95 Money Madness: The Psychology of Saving, Spending, Loving and Hating Money...
...The author, one of the better minds in the neoconservative movement, always deserves our close attention...
...Doubleday, $7.95...
...James W. Kunetka...
...City of Fire: Los Alamos and the Birth of the Atomic Age, 194345...
...But getting at these resources will be expensive and will require the will to establish long-range public policy...
...The flaw in this provocative work is the collective hairshirt the authors won’t unbutton even a little...
...But welfare, which was supposed to wither away as social security and full employment took over, remains the major source of income security for a disproportionate number of blacks...
...A Time for Truth...
...because one of the Watergateinduced delusions is that everyone ever attacked by Nixon was by definition innocent (see “Alger Hiss and the Smoking Gun Fallacy,” The Washington Monthly, October, 1975, which is cited by Weinstein) . . . because, after serving time, Alger Hiss at 76 is still around, seeking vindication (having won his fight for a government pension and the right to practice law in Massachusetts), and Whittaker Chambers is gone...
...Black accident victims would bleed to death before white hospitals would treat them...
...Tad Szulc...
...Alice S. Rossi, Jerome Kagan, Tamara K. Hareven, eds...
...Morrow, $8.95...
...Athlone...
...Knopf, $15...
...Norton, $8.95...
...The evidence against Hiss is so compelling that unless one is hopelessly addicted to theories of government conspiracy and frame-up there is scant room for doubt...
...Brown notes, foi example, that spreading black soot in the Arctic region would, by increasing reflectivity, melt the ice in a few years and bring temperate climate to the area...
...The Subsidized Muse: Public Suppofi for the Arts in the United States...
...Irving Kristol...
...The Constitution and Chief Justice Marshall...
...Alger Hiss was clean-cut, handsome, courteous, Harvard Law, State Department, member, of the American delegation at Yalta, organizer of the founding conference of the United Nations, and now, in 1948, president of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace...
...Schell is an adherent of the draw-your-own-conclusions school of journalism...
...One problem with the book is Kurland’s lack of understanding of the defects in the executive branch that led to the growth and power of the White House staff...
...Those...
...Joseph S. Wholey...
...Computer Capers: Tales of Electronic Thievery, Embezzlement and Fraud...
...Lawrence Hill, $6.95...
...He still regards the system of “deterrence” under which the United States and the Soviet Union point unbelievably destructive weapons at each other as the single greatest threat to industrial civilization...
...Energy and Social Change...
...Later he came to call them his “colored constituents...
...Dodd, Mead, $17.95...
...McGraw-Hill, $1 2.9 5. The Human Future Revisited: The World Predicament and Possible Solutions...
...Newman and her co-authors take it from there in a book that must be ranked a major contribution to the subject...
...This book represents some new step down the road to decadence in America...
...Patricia Jordan...
...Leonard Reed Illinois: A History...
...William E. Simon...
...Blacks have benefited, although less than other Americans, from the sweeping gains in living standards during the last three decades...
...Ronald Sanders...
...Caroline House, $10...
...In the South of the 1940s, “Long days at stoop labor sometimes brought [blacks] $3 or less a week...
...Black and white Americans still live out their lives in separate social worlds...
...Herb Goldberg, Robert T. Lewis...
...Whittaker Chambers was fat, sloppy, rotten-toothed, a college drop-out, and a confessed ex-member of a Communist apparatus engaged in stealing U.S...
...Chambers then broadened his charge against Hiss to include espionage...
...Mary Lewis Coakley...
...Dorothy K. Newman, et al...
...Robert Coles...
...Funerals: Consumers’ Last Rights...
...Univ...
...But several circumstances added interest to the case...
...District Nurse...
...Two Cheers for Capitalism...
...Schell, who published a book about China last year, followed Jerry Brown and his aides around for several months and has reported what he heard almost verbatim...
...William F. Swindler...
...Michael Brodsky...
...Charges of treason were not brought because more than ten years had elapsed since the acts Chambers alleged...
...the devastating effects climatic changes could have on the world food situation...
...The Justices of the United States Supreme Court, Vol...
...Doubleday, $10...
...Residential integration is still insignificant...
...Lexington, $14...
...Protest, Politics and Prosperity: Black Americans and White Institutions, 1940-75...
...the growing dependence of industrial nations, except for the Soviet Union, upon the importation of important metals without which they couldn’t funct ion...
...They also wreck their lives, but what the hell, it’s a good read...
...Random House, $10...
...Beyond nuclear havoc through big-power collision and tiny-nation-with-big-bomb possibilities the vulnerabilities include: the dependence of the industrial nations (even the Soviet Union will be so dependent) on the undeveloped countries for petroleum, their primary energy source, and the danger of escalating military action should that oil be withheld...
...On Aesthetics in Science...
...Lost Tribes and Promised Lands: The Origins of American Racism...
...Gerald Grant, David Riesman...
...Zero-Based Budgeting and Program Evaluation...
...Another member of Congress named Joseph McCarthy later rode to power because of the vulnerability of political and bureaucratic figures who had been taken in by Alger Hiss’s calm assertions of innocence...
...Bernard Asbell...
...Thomas Whiteside...
...Knopf, $15...
...His discussion of energy should be required White House reading and The Human Future Revisited a volume in every educated person’s library...
...Viking $10 Legend: The Secret World of Lee Harvey Oswald...
...Watergate and the Constitution...
...Case Against TV...
...Myron Brenton...
...black adults could still expect to be beaten or fired from their jobs for attempting to register to vote...
...Peter Magubane...
...Why, then, do we need this 700-page book by historian Weinstein...
...A Festering Sweetness...
...Their conflicting stories eventually resulted in Hiss’s being tried and found guilty on charges of perjury...
...Prentice-Hall, $10.95...
...Urizen, $8.95...
...of Pittsburgh Press, $6.95/$3.95...
...He has, however, done an admirable job of amassing Brown material and conveying what the man is like-intelligent, but completely a creature of impulse and whim...
...Univ...
...Donald J. Devine...
...Epstein’s thesis is that Oswald was in touch with the KGB during his time in Russia, that the KCB took pains to spread a false story that that wasn’t the case, and that the American intelligence agencies did not bring the truth to life...
...C. Thurstan Shaw...
...In 1942 the New York office of the FBI sent directly to J. Edgar Hoover an eight-page report on its interview with Chambers covering essentially the same ground-and Hoover dismissed the information as mere hypothesis...
...The Senate Nobody Knows...
...Press, $14.95...
...MIT Press, $4.95...
...But in the intervening years other dangers have ranged themselves alongside nuclear destruction...
...Knopf, $10...
...Arch W. Singham, ed...
...Leonard Reed The Perpetual Dream: Reform and Experiment in the American College...
...Bernard Asbell spent a great deal of time with Senator Edmund Muskie and his staff and has recorded his findings in diary form...
...Pantheon, $8.95...
...John Gardner...
...And, by 1975, Thurmond was supporting a black South Carolina lawyer for appointment to the U.S...
...Crowell, $7.95...
...Nix on Presidential Press Conferences...
...Norton, $10.95...
...George W. Johnson, ed...
...The author, a brilliant legal scholar, finds that nothing has been done to cure the constitutional deficiencies revealed by Watergate: inadequate congressional oversight of the executive branch and too much power in the White House staff...
...The one by Marcus raises some troubling questions about the guaranteed annual income...
...A young congressman named Richard Nixon received his first national recognition as a driving member of the House committee that brought Hiss down...
...Agnar Sandmo, ed...
...The Editors of Consumer Reports...
...James O’Toole, The Center for Futures Research...
...Arkansas: A History...
...William F. Buckley, Jr...
...During the legal proceedings Adlai E. Stevenson, Supreme Court Justices Stanley Reed, and Felix Frankfurter, as well as a host of other establishment figures, attested to Hiss’ integrity and loyalty, and, outside the courtroom, such figures as Eleanor Roosevelt, Dean Acheson, Walter Lippmann, and Joseph Alsop staunchly stood by Hiss...
...White restaurants would serve German prisoners-of-war inside, while black American soldiers were made to stay, unfed, outside...
...68 Gunnar Myrdal, free of guilt, would have played it a bit differently...
...Norton, $8.95...
...The United States, and man in general, have enough other energy resources-and metals -to last thousands of years...
...Hiss denied even knowing Chambers and sued him for slander...
...Press, $16.50...
...Out of the struggles of the fifties and sixties, from the quiet but unremitting legal grinding away by the NAACP and the National Urban League to the massive civil rights demonstrations, a different America emerged in which the new ingredient was the black vote and the leverage it gave...
...The last hurrah of the civil rights movement, said Atlanta’s first black mayor, isn’t being heard in the streets, because it’s in,office...
...Similarly, we have the capability of modifying climate on a large scale...
...Judith Wechsler...
...Does Freedom Work...
...Harry S. Ashmore...
...Columbia Univ...
...We don’t have to be dependent on outside oil...
...Willard Gaylin, Ira Glasser, Steven Marcus, David Rothman...
...the jobs they held in the past were either not covered by social security or the pay was too low to yield adequate payments itl old age, and anything approaching full employment still bypasses the black community...
...because new material has become available since 1975 with the release of FBI and Justice Department files on the case...
...Norton, $16.95...
...MIT Press, $12.50...
...Here’s the gimmick: two freelance writers have an affair, keep separate diaries chronicling it, and then publish them, with the names changed...
...As early as 1939 Chambers had identified members of the Communist underground, including Hiss, to A.A...
...Harrison Brown...
...If these dangers read like the Perils of Pauline, unlike that hapless heroine, we have the capability of overcoming them...
...In 1948 Chambers, then a senior editor of Time, testified before the House Committee on Un-American Activities that Hiss, while in the State Department during the 1930s, had been part of a Communist underground...
...Fiction and the Fiction Industry...
...It calls to mind the belated discretion shown by the Paris newspaper that headlined Napoleon’s flight from Elba, THE OGRE ESCAPES, and his return to France, THE EMPEROR ARRIVES...
...Robert Conquest...
...Detour...
...The Illusion of Peace: Foreign Policy in the Nixon-Kissinger Years...
...Richard J. Jenson...
...Brown’s scope is cosmic, his erudition intimidating...
...Kolyma: The Artic Death Camp...
...of Chicago Press, $15...
...Doing Good...
...the vulnerability of our complex technology to breakdown or sabotage...
...Viking, $17.50...
...Berle, Assistant Secretary of State-and nothing had happened to slow down Hiss’s steady rise in the department...
...There’s no effort made to put together the big picture, however, and you have to slog through some dull or familiar information...
...Orville Schell...
...Ordinary life was conditioned by discrimination: separate parks, separate water fountains, separate lines and waiting rooms, separate sections of the bus or train...
...The authors proceed from the conviction that such advances as have occurred were wrested from those in power...
...Magubane’s South Africa...
...Men Weinstein...
...because well-intentioned people like Lillian Hellman periodically write books like Scoundrel Time with more passion than attention to facts , . . and because, therefore, a whole new generation has grown up susceptible to the fallacy of regarding Alger Hiss as another Alfred Dreyfus...
...The Non-Alignment Movement in World Politics...
...Leonard Reed Rated X: The Mora...
...Bowker, $45...
...So, compared with the forties, massive changes have taken place, but there is still an enormous gap separating black and white in America...
...Four essays on “the limits of benevolence” that are well worth reading...
...Univ...
...Besides being engaging reading, this is a valuable source-book for students of the Senate, because Asbell has been given an extraordinary amount of access that occasionally produces richly revealing little tidbits...
...Reader’s Digest, $12.95...
...Liberty and Justice in America Today...
...Brown...
...Cambridge Univ...
...Martin’s, $7.95...
...Mencken: A Study of His Thought...
...The separation is no accident -it has become institutionalized and, in the authors’ view, will remain until the resistance of the white world to change is overcome...
...He produced microfilm and docilments that he said Hiss had copied or taken from State Department files...
...Edward Jay Epstein...
...6.95...
...Little, Brown, $8.95...
...W. W. Rostow...
...Norton, $10.95 ., Getting From Here to There...
...of Chicago Press, $12.50...
...But here he shows little understanding of the entrepreneurship that makes capitalism tick and of what government can do to give specific encouragement, as distinguished from being generally kind to the rich, to the people who create new jobs and build better plants...
...the possibility of uncontrollable epidemics growing out of experimentation with genetic structures...
...Lying: Moral Choice in Public and Private Life...
...Twenty-five years ago, when Harrison Brown wrote The Challenge of Man’s Future, he recognized that our civilization might perish in a nuclear holocaust...
...Earl M. Coleman Enterprises, $35...
...Stained Glass...
...The Family...
...Essays in Public Economics: The Kiryat Anavim Papers...
...Nigeria...
...Lawrence M. Baskir, William A. Strauss...
...the inevitable day when terrorists will have access to nuclear weapons...
...That’s why...
...Pantheon, $10.95...
...They adamantly refuse to see any connection between the great changes they document so well and certain qualities of decency in the American civilization that may have facilitated those changes...
...Perjury: The Hiss-Chambers Case...
...Black children went to schools that were open fewer days each year (to free them for field work...
...Pantheon, $1 5/$4.95...
...A fascinating real-life spy story about Lee Harvey Oswald, the CIA, the KGB, and double agents, “moles”, cover stones, and so on...
...Until the Voting Rights Act was passed, Senator Strom murmond used to refer to blacks in his state as “them Nigras...
...Norton, $10.95...
...Warren I. Cohen...
...The Private Sector: Rent-A-Cops, Private Spies and the Police-Industrial Complex...
...See “Richard Reeves on Political Books” in the January issue of The Washington Monthly . The Chinese Connection...
...are the bare bones...
...Or, as Andrew Young put it, “You don’t have to demonstrate when you can pick up a phone and call someone...
...Legend does not purport to shed any light on who killed JFK which shows admirable restraint on Epstein’s part...
...George O’Toole...
...Chance and Circumstance: The Draft, the War and the Vietnam Generation...
...J. A. Sutherland...
...Lexington, $16...
...Because time blurs, and many came to regard Hiss as a victim of McCarthyism and Chambers as one of McCarthy’s minions (Chambers considered McCarthy a witless primitive...
...The Runaways: Children, Husbands, Wives and Parents...
...Reader’s Digest, $12.50...
...Knopf, $12.95/$7.95...
...government documents for the Soviet Union...
...Sissela Bok...
...Norton, $10.95/$4.95...
...Dick Netzer...
...Philip B. Kurland...
...Court of Military Appeals...
...Gunnar Myrdal’s classic work, An American Dilemma, analyzed race relationships in the United States up to about 1940...
...V. Leon Friedman, ed...
Vol. 10 • April 1978 • No. 2
