Political Book Notes
Political Book Notes Public affairs books to be published in February Adventures of a Bystander. Peter F. Drucker. Harper & Row, $12.95. America and Western Europe: Problems and Prospects. Karl...
...Doubleday, $10.95...
...Andrew Young...
...The wrangle went into the courts, with the ACLU taking up the cudgels for the Nazis, and the case attracting national attention and debate...
...Cowan occasionally hits paydirt, as in his description of Hasidim on New York’s Lower East side who cruise around the neighborhood in late model cars, delivering food to the poor, and coordinating their efforts over the CB radio in a Combination of Yiddish and traditional truckers’ slang...
...Despite considerable p r e s s u r e f r o m t h e p h a r m a c e u t i c a l company, Dr...
...Juergen Arthur Heise...
...It was a major miscalculation...
...across the oceans-as they did from Ireland to England, and from all of Europe to the United States...
...And for those inbetween it has tried to provide a convincing answer to the question, “Why fight for freedom of speech for those who use it to obtain the power they need to take away our free speech...
...Feminist Revolution...
...This book collects the results of twelve of these daredevil assignments in cross-cultural empathy...
...As ii result, what Marks surely had hoped would be shocking new information now seems old hat...
...By comparison, the United States comes off well...
...R The Tribes of America...
...Lexington, $19.95...
...One of the reasons Britain has languished while Germany and Switzerland have boomed, Galbraith says, is that Britain has done everything possible to keep foreign workers out...
...American Nazis, insisting on their right of free assembly and speech, chose as the site of a projected demonstration a park in a Chicago suburb populated in large part by Jews who had survived the Nazi scourge in Europe...
...Minimum Disclosure: How the Pentagon Manipulates the News...
...The Skokie authorities made the permit for the demonstration conditional on providing a prohibitively high bond...
...Chuck Conconi, Toni House...
...Morton Bard, Dawn Sangreu...
...Aryeh Neier...
...John Marks made his big mistake with this book nearly two years ago...
...Black Macho and the Myth of the Superwoman...
...Ralph G. H. Siu...
...Macmillan, $8.95...
...They have gone to the cities-as they now do in the Third World...
...The Washington Sting...
...McGraw-Hill, $12.95...
...Monthly Review Press, $12.95...
...Carl Gardner...
...By the end of the book, one shares Galbraith’s conviction that, instead of trying to wall off the borders, we should open them up: “Migration, we have seen, is the oldest action against poverty...
...Lexington, $13.50...
...In Britain, once the affair became a matter of litigation, the press was enjoined from p u b l i s h i n g the r e s u l t s of i t s own investigations...
...Alvin H. Rosenfeld, Irving Greenberg...
...Neier answers the paradox posed above with another paradox: the ACLU and courts that defended the right of the Nazi’s to march in Skokie defeated the Nazis by preserving the legitimacy of American democracy...
...Karl Kaiser, Hans-Peter Schwarz, eds...
...Carry Wills...
...Norton, $10.95...
...C o w a r d , McCann & Geoghegan, $8.95...
...it helps to break the equilibrium of poverty in the country from which they come...
...The Search for the Manchurian Candidate...
...he has to be open to the possibility that an experience will reshape him...
...Some evidence for that may lie in the statistic that from 1965 to 1976 the percentage of black families with female heads increased from 23.7 per cent to 36 per cent...
...Patrick D. Larkey...
...Leonard Reed A Dilemma of Local Government: Discrimination in the Provision of Public Services...
...For its part in the affair, in which the Supreme Court ultimately upheld the right of the marchers, the ACLU lost about 30,000 members, who angrily resigned or chose not to renew their membership...
...Peter Jenkins...
...and the victims were able t o o b t a i n legal redress irrespective of their economic status because of the system by which lawyers take cases on contingency fees...
...If one was to assert one’s manhood, then, it meant a macho strutting, a put-down of black women (Carmichael’s “The only position of women in SNCC is prone...
...But Cowan continually feels compelled to “describe the self-discoveries that emerged from a particular journalistic experience”-as if his readers were interested, not in his rich subject matter, but in his own feats of tortured introspection...
...Since its founding in 1920, the American Civil Liberties Union has led the legal battles against First Amendment infringements...
...Jack C. Plano, Milton Greenberg...
...Hut only 21 lewcliapters(particularly theoneon brainwashing) havc thc riveting quality that comes from presenting new and in t r ig u i ng i n fo r ma t i o n. The Spiritual Journey of Jimmy Carter: In His Own Words...
...Indiana University Press, $12.95...
...the involvement of the universities...
...It was Dr...
...He passed around about 400 pages of his material to reporters, figuring that they would write one or two quick stories and then forget about it...
...Dutton, $9.95...
...After a number of doctors had discovered the link between thalidomide and the growing incidence of malformed children, the company printed a warning against use of the drug by pregnant women-on the thalidomide labels it sent to Western countries but not on those it sent to Africa...
...Fearful that the Senate Intelligence Committee or the CIA would steal his thunder, Marks announced at a press conference that he had obtained, using the Freedom of Information Act, thousands of pages of documents detailing the CIA’S bizarre experiments in mind control and brainwashing...
...Dial, $7.95...
...Monthly Review Press, $5.95...
...How to deal with it...
...Barbara Jordan, Shelby Hearon...
...He points out that in Britain, where there are no constitutional guarantees of free speech, laws originally designed to curb the speech of fascists have been used to silence antifascists, Zionists, and opponents of nuclear weapons...
...Second, Galbraith shows that, down through the ages, the “equilibrium of poverty”in the rural areas of the world has mainly been broken in one way: when those who refuse to accommodate themselves to this hopeless prospect decide to go somewhere else...
...Crown, $14.95...
...No one would admit a cause-culture, climate, terms of trade-for which a remedy was not at hand...
...to richer lands-as they now do from Yugoslavia and Turkey to Western Europe...
...revolt is not without its rewards”) have grown tiresome, but in this short book he makes two points convincingly...
...Parricia Nosher Brink: Cuban Missile Crisis, 1962...
...Daniel Berman...
...Crowell, $10.95...
...Frances Kelsey, a new employee of t h e F o o d a n d D r u g Administration...
...The sordidness of the story goes far beyond Germany...
...If you were wondering whatever happened tc the Black Revolution, it was dissipated, according to the author, partly by a “fog of sexual myths and fallacies...
...I have rarely covered a story that left me as emotionally conflicted as this one did...
...Anthony Mathews...
...John Marks...
...The Crime Victim’s Book...
...Privacy: How to Protect What’s Left of It...
...University of California, $22.50...
...One is that, in diagnosing the problems of world poverty, the rich nations have started with the remedies they were able to provide-pesticides, cement p l a n t s , courses i n democracy-and reasoned back from there to what the causes of poverty must be...
...American Energy Choices Before the Year 2000...
...Confronting the Holocaust: The Impact of Elie Weisel...
...Kelsey stuck to her guns...
...For Ms...
...The journalists who wrote this book concentrate much of their attention on Britain, where the thalidomide licensee, one of Britain’s industrial giants, also chose to conceal the mounting evidence from the doctors and clinics to whom it was selling the drug...
...A company tainted by a previous scandal did become the licensee but found, to its chagrin, that its application to distribute thalidomide had run afoul of Dr...
...He was sustained by his belief, which he sets forth compellingly, that once the liberties of unpopular minorities are sacrificed, no liberties are safe...
...William Morrow, $12.95...
...At Button’s...
...Historically, the black woman was indeed a stabilizing force, but not the emasculating, monstrous Amazon she has been made out to be by the now chestthumping macho...
...The View From Sunset Boulevard: America as Brought to You by the People Who Make Television...
...I realized a reporter covering a tribal battle has to be able to hold two conflicting realities in his mind...
...This narcissistic preoccupation with virility, if the author is right, has left the black woman in a far worse predicament than ever before, without status or respect, beset by prejudice and animosity between the sexes...
...Joseph E. Persico...
...Princeton, $18.50...
...It is a story of incredible carelessness, callousness, and venality on the part of the West German pharmaceutical company that issued the drug with insufficient research and vigorously promoted it long after receiving persuasive evidence of its danger...
...Kelsey’s first application, and she was unimpressed by the fact that thalidomide had already been on the German market, with apparent safety, for two years...
...Death on the Job: Occupational Health and Safety Struggles in the United States...
...and writing long, detailed accounts about MK-ULTRA and the other mind control programs for months afterwards...
...T/7e Ne~i, York Tinws and Tllr Washington Post , decided to pursue the story aggressivelyasking for, and receiving from the CIA ull the documents the agency was turning over to Marks...
...Lexington, $14.50...
...Viking, $14.95...
...So it was not civil rights but sexual politics that underlay the rhetoric and bombast of the sixties...
...It was thrilling and terrifying,” writes Paul Cowan, “to read a New York Times article about a fight over some textbooks in West Virginia, or about some coal miners who were striking in Harlan County, or truck drivers who were closirig down America’s highways, and know that the Voice would assign me to diScover the human feelings behind those stark facts...
...Ronald Lewin...
...The Nature of Mass Poverty...
...Drake, $9.95...
...Wallace, who herself once looked to a sweetly dependent role, the answer is to shake her sisters out of the guilt of unjustified myth, shake them out of indifference to the women’s movementand to shake up black men with her indictment...
...Elihu Bergman, Hans A. Bethe, Robert E. Marshak...
...The major pharmaceutical companies refused to handle...
...Ben Stein...
...Evaluating Public Programs: The Impact of General Revenue Sharing on Municipal Government...
...Times, $9.95...
...Wherever they arrive, they are not a drain on resources-as our current flap over illegal aliens assumes-but more often a crucial source of continued economic growth...
...The Angry Decade: The Sixties...
...James Fallows Piercing the Reich: The Penetration of Nazi Germany by American Secret Agents During World War 11...
...Neier, who himself suffered from the Nazis in Germany, was the ACLU’s executive director during the Skokie affair, and defending the rights of the American Nazis was a distasteful and wrenching experience...
...Harvard University Press, $8.95, Galbraith’s arch tone and his back-constructed double-negatives (“it would be far from unreasonable to assume...
...Andrews & McMeel, $8.95...
...This might work if Cowan were, say, Vladimir Nabokov...
...The Insight Team of the Sun&\: Tiines of London...
...The paradox was dramatically evident in the Skokie case...
...It selects those who most want help...
...Doubleday, $9.95...
...Here, too, publicity and incentive combined to make private litigation by the parents of the victims effective: the plight of the victims was well publicized by a press unhampered by prior restraint laws...
...The Craft of Power...
...Defending My Enemy: American Nazis, the Skokie Case and the Risks of Freedom...
...Many died, but some 8,000 of them are teenagers now, children born with missing and rudimentary limbs and a whole array of other deformities because during pregnancy their mothers took as few as two thalidomide pills, a tranquilizer that went on sale in October 1957...
...Moshe Lewin...
...The American Political Dictionary...
...Robert Ellis Smith...
...Basic, $10.95...
...Viking, $12.95...
...Suffer the Children: The Story of Thalidomide...
...Paul Cowan...
...It has been denounced by the right wing for defending communists and by the communists for upholding free speech for right-wing extremists...
...So it is less than fascinating when, at the end of the book, Cowan dramatically reveals the records he listened to while doing his unfortunate “experimenting with the journalistic form...
...See Richard Reeves’ column...
...fiction) Barbara Jordan: A Self-portrait...
...thalidomide because they considered it to have been insufficiently researched...
...Holt, Rinehart & Winston, $I 5,951 $8.95...
...Robert M. Kaus Ul!ra Goes to War...
...David Detzer...
...She wanted to know what effect the drug might have on pregnant women...
...In most countries the victims were thrown on their own resources in attempting to force the companies to share the finaocial burden of the ruined lives they had created-and only the rich had the resources...
...We get hcre the grand overview--ii comprehensive, dctailed, and thoroughly readablc account of the CIA safehouscs, the brainwashing experiments...
...Except for “trial” samples the company gave to a few doctors before making its application to FDA, thalidomide was never marketed in the United States, and there were, consequently, no more than 16 known thalidomide births here...
...It is good for the country to which they go...
...But he seems rather a dull sort...
...Anchor, $10...
...Michele Wallace...
...But in addressing these myths, she has to acknowledge some grounding for the Moynihan Report’s finding of a matriarchal society among blacks...
...What is the perversity in the human soul that causes people to resist so obvious a good...
...Basic, $8.95...
...Lenin’s Last Struggle...
...John Kenneth Galbraith...
...The Darker Reaches of Government: Access to Information about Public Administration in the United States, Britain, and South Africa...
...A Walk Across America...
...Paul Sann...
...Paul R. Diamond, with Constance Chamberlin, Wayne Hillyard...
...Her bitter complaint is two-pronged: the black woman never wanted that role, and, as a “myth,” black authors gave it every credence, reflecting the white view of the black as something less than a man...
...John Wiley, $15.95...
...Redstockings...
...Wesley G. Pippert...
...Random House, $5.95...
Vol. 10 • February 1979 • No. 11
