POLITICAL BOOK NOTES
political book notes Public affairs books to be published in July and August. Almost Persuaded: American Physicians and Compulsory Health Insurance, 19121920. Ronald L. Numbers. Johns...
...In January 1967, he became a prisoner of war...
...For instance, in discussing the degradation of workers in our society, McCarthy briefly alludes to interviews conducted by Studs Terkel...
...and earnings...
...corporations hold most Americans in almost feudal thrall...
...Albania is very small...
...The answer, according to van den Bosch, lies in the size and power the agrichemical industry has achieved and in the “merchandising imperative” that drives it on...
...Monthly Review Press, $15...
...Lesser State of the Nation 111...
...Transaction, $7.95...
...The American publishing industry and former Nixon staffers seem to have a bad effect on one another...
...The collateral victim is the reading public...
...Irving Howe...
...What he finds, amidst the absurdities of any dogma that claims prevision of the unrolling of human events, is enough shrewd insight into the workings of social forces to merit for Trotsky a niche among the major political theorists of the 20th century...
...Henry Hazlitt...
...Lexington, $16...
...For awhile, the Albanians were loyal followers of the larger communist countries...
...The dramatic success of DDT, before it stubbed its toe on Rachel Carson, resulted in the exolosive develoDment of Desticides - and, for a generation, the virtua abandonment of all other techniques of pest control...
...This latest McCarthy book reads like one of his campaign speeches, resembling an introductory lecture for an interdisciplinary survey course in American studies...
...Nor does he go much beyond the usual litany of complaints about American society and his standard prescriptions, such as restraining the president and the military, shortening the work week, and moving beyond the two-party system...
...Science, Sin, and Scholarship...
...tax swindles, illegal price-fixing arrangements, securities violations, and, increasingly...
...In Search of History...
...Johns Hopkins University Press, $14...
...The bad news is that white-collar crimealready a $40-billion annual rip-off-is heading for its heyday...
...Viking, $7.95...
...There is no indication that McCarthy himself has spoken to any of the people he glibly describes as serfs to the giant corporations...
...Hill and Wang, $1 1.95/$5.95...
...Robert van den Bosch...
...the judiciary is increasingly powerful, but government eludes legal restraint and democratic control...
...Doubleday, $10...
...Louise Lander...
...John Guinther...
...That’s the prospect in the cashless society ahead, in which we will transfer our money from bank to bill collector by telephone push button...
...Research and the Health of Americans: Improving the Policy Process...
...The industry has “bought” scientific associations and individual scientists through grants...
...The Inflation Crisis, and How to Resolve It...
...Ultimately, however, it’s not the prisoners but rather people like Stratton’s wife, Alice, and sister, Ellen...
...Simon & Schuster, $8.95...
...Ethnic Leadership in America...
...My Name is Million: An Illustrated History of the Poles in America...
...There’s Stratton and fellow prisoners, who had to cope not only with sporadicepisodes of brutal physical violence, but also with empty months of solitary confinement when staying sane meant communicating via an underground system of tapping, coughing, scratching, and scraping, or memorizing the texts of moldy old copies of novels and Mac/ comics, or devising endless strategies of resistance...
...The Albanians dutifully expropriated their own kulaks (the larger peasant landholders) just like Stalin, and instituted their own Cultural Revolution, j,uSt like Mao...
...Farrar, Straus & Giroux, $10...
...Medical Ethics and Medical Power...
...political book notes Public affairs books to be published in July and August...
...bankruptcy frauds...
...William Lee Miller...
...Currently, using 600 million pounds of insecticide, we lose 13 per cent of the yield to insects...
...The most doctrinaire Marxist-Leninists in the world, the Albanians have accomplished what other Communists have only dreamed ofnationalized all personal property without compensation, entirely abolished religion (closing all mosques and churches), and rapidly industrialized a once-backward society...
...The Moral Choice...
...Thomas S. Burns...
...The Divided Left: American Radicalism, 1900-1975...
...Doubleday, $10.95...
...the military avoids civilian accountability...
...Perhaps because it is so small, Albania has been subjected to complete and central planning by Hoxha and his Albanian Party of Labor...
...And, as we know, what happened was that the weak little critters expired and the strong little critters developed huge new populations resistant to one pesticide after another...
...assets...
...Cambodia: Year Zero...
...10.95...
...Scott Blakey...
...Harper & Row, $8.95...
...Johns Hopkins University Press, $12.95...
...The Cultural Crisis of Modern Medicine...
...14.95...
...Ronald Gross, Beatrice Gross, Sylvia Seidman...
...The Secret War for the Ocean Depths...
...Doubleday, $5.95...
...Lexington...
...Even today, only some 2.5 million people-fewer than the population of Brooklyn-live in a land slightly smaller than the state of Maine...
...Carroll Seron...
...MIT Press, $25...
...Times, $10.95...
...White-Collar Crime: A 20th Century Crisis...
...The good news is that street mugging and armed robberies will be going out of style...
...There were the “hard-liners” (name, rank and serial number only) and the more subtle pragmatists like Stratton, resented by some prisoners for attempting to define in their own minds just what constituted resistance and what a cop-out...
...White-collar crime, one of America’s great growth industries...
...Simon & Schuster, $9.95...
...Harper & Row, $12.95...
...Jan Hendrick van den Berg, MD...
...Johns Hopkins University Press, $13...
...Lexington, $17...
...Doubleday...
...government has gotten bigger...
...MlT Press, $12.50...
...But ever suspicious of revisionism, Hoxha eventually excoriated Tito’s Yugoslavia, Khruschev’s Soviet Union, and, finally, Mao’s China, for abahdoning true Marxism...
...McCarthy has apparently re-read de Tocqueville and kept up with current social criticism...
...F r a n c o i s Ponchaud...
...Robert J. Brugger...
...The great strength of Blakey’s book is that it’s a story about the isolated suffering of people forced to piece together their thoughts and their lives as a result of war...
...Three months later he appeared in a 16-page spread in L.ife magazine, the self-professed “Hanoi Bomber,” bowing in mechanical repentance before an internationally attended press conference in Hanoi...
...Leonard Reed Prisoner At War: The Survival of Commander Richard A. Stratton...
...Doubleday, $10...
...The Pesticide Conspiracy...
...Stephen Strickland...
...Not the bolt out of the blue that Silent Spring was in its day, and a bit tarnished by van den Bosch’s penchant for donning the mantle of St...
...Neighbors in Conflict: The Irish, Germans, Jews and Italians of New York City, 19291941...
...Johns Hopkins University Press, $10...
...William Watts, Lloyd A. Free...
...He is the leader of Albania, and, after reading this book (at the unproletarian price of $25), you’ll know more about Hoxha, Albania, and its unique social system than you ever wanted to know...
...Quoting sources as diverse as Samuel Gompers and Herbert Marcuse, Milton Cantor maintains that the culture of economic individualism-“bourgeois ideology”-is so widespread in our society that there has never been a hospitable environment for radical movements...
...Daniel C. Maguire...
...Milton Cantor...
...Theodore H. White...
...Why don’t we switch to an integrated system of pest control-biological techniques which utilize predators to control pests, development of pest-resistant varieties, selective rather than broadcast use of pesticides...
...Rawson Associates, $12.95...
...Ellen, on the other hand, was torn between her belief in the immorality of the war and her loyalty toward her own brother...
...Lexington, $13.50...
...shady business en, and streetwise politicians...
...So why does it go on...
...Stein, a speechwriter for Nixon and Ford, has the nifty notion of having a fictionalized Kissinger-like Secretary of State revealed as a former member of the Hitler Youth...
...Alice was u n d e r s t a n d a b l y m o r e preoccupied with her husband’s welfare...
...What we have is that rare bug, a serious entomologist who is a delight to read...
...who are the most sympathetically described by Blakey...
...Socialist Albania Since 1944: Domestic and Foreign Developments...
...Janet Marinelli The Republic of Technology...
...prison conditions are wretched...
...George Liska...
...takes in consumer frauds, hanky-panky with the growing volume of federal social service and defense contracts...
...August Bequai...
...Judicial Reorganization: The Politics of Reform in the Federal Bankruptcy Court...
...Leonard Reed Yankee from Georgia: The Emergence of Jimmy Carter...
...The book begins with a brief and admittedly unoriginal explanation for the unsuccess of the American Left...
...Harry Lesser Beverly Tucker: Heart Over Head in the Old South...
...Sandwiched between slices of this gospel is a conventional history of all the leftist movements that failed to take root in American soil-Socialists, Communists, Trotskyists, the New Left, and sects too microscopic to command the attention of anyone except theiradherents, theFBI, and historians such as Milton Cantor...
...W. S. Kuniczak...
...white-collar skullduggery has become the modus operandi of organized crime as well...
...Marcus G. Raskin, ed...
...De Tocqueville toured the nation and interviewed Americans in order to write his book...
...with the day-to-day problems of raising three young children alone during the six years of his absence, and with organizing support for POW families, who were taunted by the more insensitive opponents of the war and ignored by the government, than with the philosophical subtleties of the war debate...
...Suddenly the possibility that Richard Stratton might be the pawn of North Vietnamese propaganda, that American POWs were being “brainwashed,” even physically tortured, became a burning issue here...
...Jane Howard...
...The Federal Budget and Social Reconstruction: The People and the State...
...The Croesus Conspiracy...
...John Higham...
...McCarthy reviews Alexis de Tocqueville’s Democracy in America, reporting on what has happened to America during the ensuing 150 years...
...McCarthy doesn’t answer the question that William Marcy Tweed asked his critics (and that the party regulars must have asked McCarthy in 1968): “What are you going to do about it...
...He lets an incredible array of facts speak for themselves...
...used about 50-million pounds of insecticide annually, the insects destroyed about seven per cent of the preharvest crop...
...The New Old: Struggling for Decent Aging...
...Daniel Boorstin...
...A former disciple (like many American socialists), Howe takes a retrospective look at the brilliant Russian revolutionary’s life, work, and influence...
...Ronald H. Bayor...
...A former federal prosecutor and chairman of the Federal Bar Association’s subcommittee on white-collar crime, Bequai formulates his indictment of the government with authority and clarity...
...But they all tried desperately to live up to an impossible military Code of Conduct...
...computer sleight of hand in which the punch of a key creates fictitious entities...
...Quick-who is Enver Hoxha...
...Melvin I . Urofsky...
...George, The Pesticide Conspiracy is nevertheless lively, feisty, and worthwhile...
...McCarthy finds that de Tocqueville’s predictions, both pessimistic and optimistic, were largely accurate: racism persists...
...Harr,i...
...John Ehrenreich, ed...
...Richard Stratton, a bomber pilot and junior maintenance officer aboard the USS Ticonderoga, accidentally became one of the most powerful symbols of the Vietnam war for both Americans and North Vietnamese...
...Doubleday, $12.95...
...Johns Hopkins University Press, $1 7.95...
...Today, Albania stands alone in the world...
...Norton, s7.95...
...Doubleday, $8.95...
...Doubleday, $10...
...America Revisited: 150 Years after de Tocqueville...
...Benjamin Stein...
...Thirty years ago, when the U.S...
...Eugene McCarthy...
...Surprisingly enough, this study is readable-and, even more amazingly, Professor Prifti has analyzed Albania’s fanatically ideological society without either praising or damning it...
...Career of Empire: America and Imperial Expansion Over Land and Sea...
...Holt, Rinehart & Winston, $8.95...
...Families...
...Peter R. Prifti...
...The Malpractitioners: How Medical Malpractice Became a Crisis and Who Benefited From It...
...The industry has used its power in Washington to castrate the Environmental Protection Agency and to nudge responsibility for peslicide regulation toward the more compliant and hopelessly bureaucratic Department of Agriculture...
...Defective Medicine: Risk, Anger, and the Malpractice Crisis...
...Leon Trotsky...
...See Richard Reeves’column on page 57 of this issue...
...The greatest shortcoming of McCarthy’s book is the absence of first-hand, firstperson observation of America and Americans...
...lrving Louis Horowitz, ed...
...His lament is that by our technology and our genius for disrupting nature we have managed to enhance the insects’ competitive position vis a vis man...
...It has used its power in state legislatures to pressure college administrators, who, in turn, harass researchers investigating the perils of various pesticides...
...We Are One: American Jewry and Israel...
...Arlington House, $8.95...
...Van den Bosch is chairman of the Division of Biological Control at the University of California, Berkeley, and he is in high dudgeon not just because we are dousing our crops, our land, and ourselves with pesticides, but because it is a dumb way to fight insects...
...Once the exclusive province of gentlemen embezzlers...
Vol. 10 • July 1978 • No. 5
