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....
...A war or so later, when Rebecca West was asked whether she had been one of Allen's mistresses, she replied, "Alas, no...
...Crown, $12.95...
...Westview Press, $10...
...After the war he was the all-powerful spymaster...
...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...
...Truman summed up a large body of opinion in his reaction to the suggestion that he give Dulles a post: "What, that bastard...
...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...
...Dick Howard...
...Peter Schrag...
...Jerry Brown: The Man on the White Horse...
...Thomas C. Cochran...
...Morrow, $14.95...
...Alfred A. "Knopf, $10...
...Sandol Stoddard...
...John H. Davis...
...The Inner Editor: The Offense and Defense of Communication...
...Basic, $15...
...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...
...Chou: An Informal Biography of China's Legendary Chou En-Lai...
...Doubleday, $8.95...
...Martin Mayer...
...The Marxian Legacy...
...Not on your life...
...In Europe the cockpit of East and West conflict was West Berlin, and its affairs were controlled from Washington by Eleanor Lansing Dulles...
...2, Willing...
...Lexington, $12.95...
...Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, $8.95...
...Eisenhower ran for President on a foreign policy program designed by Dulles, who became his Secretary of State...
...British Appeasement in the 1930's...
...1, Thinking...
...The average spy novel is thin broth compared with the exploits of the man upon whom so many of them are based...
...Communicate: Parkinson's Formula for Business Survival...
...Hate Don't Make No Noise: Anatomy of a New Ghetto...
...After harrowing escapes, Orlov turned up in the office of Francis Biddle, the U.S...
...Devin-Adair, $8.95...
...The Builders: Houses, People, Neighborhoods, Governments, Money...
...Richard G. Benton...
...Conquer and Colonize...
...He doesn't stumble into booby traps," Reston wrote, "He digs them to size, studies them carefully and then jumps...
...J.D...
...Norton, $8.95...
...Vernon A. Walters...
...William R. Rock...
...It is a novel, the impact of which is undermined by a thin plot and characters out of Damon Runyan...
...The Life of the Mind: Vol...
...J. Stephan Jellinek...
...1945: Year Zero...
...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...
...First, Eleanor...
...Johns Hopkins, $15...
...Jerry Mander...
...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...
...Capitalist Patriarchy and the Case for Socialist Feminism...
...Death and Dying...
...Norton, $7.95/$3.95...
...Monthly Review Press, $13.95...
...Yale, $15...
...The Prodigal South Returns to Power...
...Oscar Lewis, Ruth M. Lewis, Susan M. Rigdon...
...Two knowledgeable insiders tell what went wrong with the Peace Corps and how it could still be saved...
...John Lukacs...
...Truman relented, much to his subsequent regret, for Dulles became an inveterate leaker of items that reflected nobly on himself and poorly on others...
...Neighbors: Living the Revolution-An Oral History of Contemporary Cuba...
...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...
...During World War II he directed the European operations of the Office of Strategic Services...
...Alfred A. Knopf, $7.95...
...C. Northcote Parkinson, Nigel Rowe...
...Henry Fairlie...
...The virtual free hand Dulles had in foreign policy turned out to be mostly thumbs...
...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...
...Univ...
...Monthly Review Press, $16.50...
...Norton, $8.95...
...Foreign Service...
...Donald Biggs...
...Doubleday, $12.95...
...Silent Missions...
...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...
...John E. Krier, Edmund Ursin...
...The second wave, 1936-38, consisted of men fleeing the terrible purges then wracking the Soviet Union...
...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...
...Praesidio, $12.95...
...Dulles: A Biography of Eleanor, Allen and John Foster Dulles and Their Family Net· work...
...Doubleday, $8.95...
...Presidential Impeachment...
...Gordon Brook-Shepherd...
...None of these activities kept Allen Dulles from building a vast network of friends and girlfriends...
...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...
...Martin's, $8.95...
...Pseudoscience and Mental Ability: The Origins and Fallacies of the IQ Controversy...
...Martin Wei...
...Maryland: A His~ory...
...Fred Ward...
...Boris Shragin...
...The first of these waves, 1928-30, stemmed largely from disillusioned idealism...
...John Wiley & Sons, $12.95...
...of California, $15.95...
...the emigre turned out to be Lenin, en route to Russia to make a separate peace with Germany...
...If you are going to read just one biography in 1978, consider this triple-header...
...Jeffrey M. Blum...
...Allen was the fun-loving Rover Boy...
...Iowa: A History...
...Carl Bode...
...Nora Ephron...
...Christopher .Howe...
...Joseph F. Wall...
...Counsel for the United States: U.S...
...Norton, $15...
...The Politics of Prosecution: Jim Thompson, Richard Nixon, Marje Everett and the Trial of Otto Kerner...
...Boris Bajanov, personal assistant to Joseph Stalin and secretary to the Politburo, had defected...
...Basic, $18...
...Life's Second Half: The Dynamics of Aging...
...John R. Labovitz...
...attorney general, showed his credentials and requested asylum...
...Dial, $12.95...
...Norton, $10.95...
...China's Economy...
...Going to the brink and looking into the abyss," as he proudly described one of his maneuvers, became derisively known as "brinksmanship...
...Inside the Fourth Reich...
...Norton, $8.95...
...Kevin Lowther, C. Payne Lucas...
...The Storm Petrels: The Flight of the First Soviet Defectors...
...By contrast, just about nobody liked John Foster Dulles...
...Urizen, $15...
...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...
...Pollution and Policy: A Case Essay on California and Federal Experience with Motor Vehicle Air Pollution, 1940-1975...
...Scribble, Scribble: The Media According to Nora Ephron...
...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...
...The Challenge of the Spirit...
...Unleashing Chiang Kaishek" [to invade the Chinese mainland1 turned into an international joke...
...As director of the Central Intelligence Agency he ran his own planes, recruited his own soldiers and initiated his own military campaigns...
...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...
...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...
...The Parties: Republicans and Democrats in This Century...
...Hannah Arendt...
...The Declining Significance of Race: Blacks and Changing American Institutions...
...Through Allen Dulles, the younger brother, the family consolidated its control over the external policies of the United States...
...Leonard Reed Four Arguments for the Eliminating of Television...
...Mind Control...
...Robert H. Bork...
...Norton, $10.95...
...by presidents, prime ministers and chairmen of political committees...
...Jethro K. Lieberman...
...Prentice-Hall, $9.95...
...Zillah R. Eisenstein...
...Univ...
...Hank Messick...
...Van Nostrand Reinhold, $12.95...
...Erich Erdstein with Barbara Bean...
...Pennsylvania: A History...
...The Hospice Movement: A Better Way of Caring for the Dying...
...of Il1inois, $15...
...Stein and Day, $8.95...
...Ralph Glasser...
...Caroline House, $10.95...
...Inside Cuba Today...
...Leonard Mosley...
...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...
...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...
...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...
...The Cost of Catastrophic IDness...
...Jerome Ellison...
...The time was 1928, the place a hunting area in the Soviet Union near the Turkish border...
...Biddle, whose bones yielded to...
...Crisis at the Bar: The Unethical Ethics of Lawyers, and What to Do About It...
...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...
...Viking, $10...
...Harry S. Dent...
...The Guggenheims: An American Epic...
...Himself: The Life and Times of Mayor Richard J. Daley...
...Stein and Day, $8.95...
...In the 1950s the name Dulles was "uttered like an incantation or muttered like an imprecation...
...The Net and the Quest: Patterns of Community and How They Can Survive Progress...
...Keeping Kennedy's Promise: The Dnmet Hope of the New Frontier...
...To be sure, the term "defector" had not yet come into use...
...Pica Press, $15...
...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...
...William Julius Wilson...
...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...
...Morrow, $11.95...
...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...
...of Chicago, $12.50...
...Houghton Mifflin, $8.95...
...Attorneys in the Political and Legal Systems...
...Pantheon, $10...
...Massive retaliation" against Soviet probings proved an empty threat...
...John McCook Roots...
...James Eisenstein...
...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...
...Etta Revesz...
...Howard Birnbaum with Michael Schwartz...
...Martin's, $8.95...
...Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, $12.50 each...
...Univ...
...A Pretty Good Club: The Founding Fathers of the U.S...
...One who escaped murder was General Alexander Orlov, the highest Soviet secret police official ever to defect...
...Lorenz...
...Viking, $10...
...Dulles' uncanny ability to alienate friendly countries led James Reston to characterize him as "a supreme expert in the art of diplomatic blundering...
...Eugene Kennedy...
...A State Department desk officer, as she was, simply does not have that measure of authority during crises...
Vol. 10 • March 1978 • No. 1
