Political Book Notes
Political Book Notes Public Affairs books to be published in February Against the Current. Isaiah Berlin. Viking ($16.95). Behind Closed Doors: Violence in the American Family. Murray A....
...Ralph W. Moss...
...Fourteen academics, in hot pursuit of the best ways to recover the manganese before the bad guys get it, conclude after 251 pages that "the issue is uncommonly intricate and tangled, mixing problems of resource supplies and security, economic and political policy, in ways that will not be easily or quickly sorted out...
...Marxism: For and Against...
...Holt, Rinehart and Winston ($12.95...
...The Inquisition in Hollywood: Politics in the Film Community 1930-1960...
...Peter Conrad...
...Senate...
...After thousands of interviews, the authors conclude that domestic violence is far more widespread than commonly believed, and much too widely ignored...
...And Heilbroner comes up with the traditional answers: those concepts are not all that helpful in studying the systems we have today...
...Follett ($10.95...
...Harvard ($20...
...Larry Ceplair & Stephen Englund...
...His "laws" are not new...
...In a study designed, not so much for scholars as for what the book jacket calls "the large audience that has come to look on [him] as a familiar and respected mentor," Heilbroner conducts a guided tour of Marxist canons, pausing periodically to pass judgment, pro and con, "for and against...
...Harvard ($17.50...
...University of North Carolina ($15...
...Industry needs manganese, right...
...The European Left: Italy, France and Spain...
...Patrick Marnham...
...Ramparts ($11.95...
...Nancy Reagan with Bill Libby...
...W. T. Tyler...
...This book focuses on the development of OPEC as a natural response to world economic growth, how members of OPEC have benefited their countries through that organization, the conditions of world oil, and the struggle for power over its supply...
...Lexington ($29.95...
...Morrow ($9.95...
...Democracy and Distrust: A Theory of Judicial Review...
...John Dyson...
...Morrow publishes...
...George Woodcock...
...Doubleday ($14.95...
...Deepsea Mining...
...The idea that technology is responsible for shaping our working lives, for example, is never dispatched or endorsed, although Heilbroner refers often to "high speed technology" and workers dancing to the "rhythms of the machine...
...Fantastic Invasion: Africa in the 1980s...
...Doubleday ($15.95...
...This report assesses the resources of New York City and presents proposals to assure the future progress of the city and promote its status as a world capital...
...Walking the Tightrope: The Private Confessions of a Public Relations Man...
...The kind of book to keep in your medicine chest as an antidote to Robert Ringer...
...Fortune's Child...
...Don't get too friendly with your co-workers until you know which clique they're in...
...Nancy loves Ronald...
...Stein and Day ($19.95...
...Kenneth J. Coffey...
...MIT ($17.50...
...Henry C. Rogers...
...Ross K. Baker...
...Instead, the pressing . questions concern the nature of work, the ways the populace can control the state, and most important, what would a society that we preferred to the one we have now look like...
...Richard Polenberg...
...Bill Libby has a tape recorder...
...Wolfram F. Hanrieder...
...Germany and the United States: "A Special Relationship...
...Mary Scott Welch...
...The ocean floor is covered with manganese...
...Andrew Boyle...
...Office Politics: Seizing Power, Wielding Clout...
...Dutton ($12.50...
...Judith T. Kildow, ed...
...Viking ($12.95...
...These proposals are designed to develop the resources of the city so that it can be an attractive and productive home for its citizens while emerging as the principal marketplace and cultural center of the world...
...Harcourt Brace Jovanovich ($10.95...
...Not Working: An Oral History of the Unemployed...
...Networking: The Great New Way for Women to Get Ahead...
...Readers who struggle on past that sentence will find that the rest of the book fails to live up to its promise—the arguments are quite sensible and logical, even if Heilbroner repeatedly resorts to rhetorical ambiguities when he's in a jam...
...Jammed with charts and jargon, this book deserved better editing than it got...
...Friend and Foe in the U.S...
...This book was not strictly necessary...
...Basic ($16.95...
...Imagining America...
...Ronald loves Nancy...
...in big business, which won't stop belching carcinogens into the environment...
...Among other things, Baker finds that complete candor is absent from even the closest of congressional friendships—because of the possibility that an unguarded personal revelation might lead to political disaster if a friend ever becomes a foe...
...Guy Burgess, and Donald MacLean, and Who Recruited Them to Spy for Russia...
...According to Moss, however, cancer has many friends in high places: in the medical establishment, still relying on orthodox treatments that rarely succeed...
...Publishers 1278 Massachusetts Ave., Harvard Square, Cambridge , MA 02138...
...Cultivate a mentor...
...The Carter Presidency and Beyond: Power Politics in the 1980s...
...Steven David Gold...
...One Nation Divisible: Class, Race and Ethnicity in the United States Since 1938...
...Murray A. Straus, Richard J. Getles and Suzanne Steinmetz...
...The Hot Arctic...
...Bill types...
...Sex in History...
...Little, Brown ($15...
...Doubleday ($10.95...
...Marilyn Moats Kennedy...
...essentially, he reviews the tactics practiced routinely by any professional negotiator (the art of compromise, how to recognize a bluff) and applies them to everyday situations...
...176 Pages Available cloth edition - $17.50 OPEC OIL LORING ALLEN, University of Missouri - St...
...Veljko Micunovic, translated by David Floyd...
...Dial ($12.95...
...Free Press ($12.50...
...Lewis Lapham...
...Billed as "a manual of political survival in the business world," Office Politics is a depressing testimonial to the marketability of coldbloodedness...
...You probably think cancer is Public Enemy Number One...
...The Canadians...
...Anchor) Doubleday ($10.95...
...272 Pages Available $20.00 Oelgeschlager, Gunn & Hain, Inc...
...The authors' conclusions suggest that new institutional arrangements for planning and siting electric power systems will have to deal with an increasing complexity of alternative choices, including not only fuel types and generation modes, but also system design, regional planning, local community initiatives, and the integration of heterogeneous system components...
...The flack walks a "tightrope," Rogers says, between his promotional instincts and his moral scruples...
...The Cancer Syndrome...
...Faithful to his role as the "familiar and respected" guide, Heilbroner sticks closely to the traditional furrows of Marxist thought...
...States, of Desire: Travels in Gay America...
...Some of what he has to say seems truly fatuous—Jerry Brown has a more down-to-earth understanding of the idea of "dialectics," for example, which Heilbroner values because it "taps levels of awareness that defy the syntax of common sense and logic...
...History of the Idea of Progress...
...The author, a political scientist from Rutgers, worked on Walter Mondale's Senate staff, where he learned something of which many of his fellow academics seem totally unaware—the role of human relationships in determining legislative action...
...Robert L. Heilbroner...
...But then "ambiguity," as he puts it, "is the very essence of dialectics...
...Oxford ($11.95...
...The Man Who Lost the War...
...Nancy...
...Lexington ($24.95...
...West view ($22.50...
...The author is a mediator-arbitrator who seems to have been keeping copious notes on confrontations he has settled...
...Nancy talks...
...Dial ($10.95...
...Norton ($12.95...
...If you're a publicrelations man and find this plausible, don't work without a net...
...When there's a merger, know all the scats on the new players before they arrive...
...Robert M. Kaus Moscow Diary...
...Harry Maurer...
...Robert Nisbet...
...Louis The world's oil problems are the result of legitimate but conflicting interests...
...288 Pages Available $20.00 CENTRALIZED POWER The Politics of Scale in Electricity Generation MARC MESSING, Environmental Policy Institute, H. PAUL FRIESEMA, Northwestern University, and DAVID MORELL, Princeton University This book examines the impacts of centralization and of decentralization of the electric utility industry on the structure and activities of local and state governments...
...Little of this is new, but Moss— who is no laetrile freak himself—has done a competent job of documenting a dismal state of affairs...
...Harvard ($15...
...Public Enemies: The Mayor, The Mob, and The Crime That Was...
...Having observed men in the act of making themselves miserable at work, the author tells women how to do the same...
...Grove ($12.50...
...in the pharmaceutical industry, lobbying against unorthodox treatments (like laetrile) because the industry hasn't figured out how to make a profit on them...
...George Walsh...
...Edward Levin...
...Anchor/ Doubleday ($10.95...
...Reay Tannahill...
...Patrick Granfield...
...This is notable only because it's so unfashionable when nearly every how-to author recommends going straight for the jugular...
...Strategic Implications of the All-Volunteer Force...
...M. Evans ($8.95...
...Hans W. Gatzke...
...Laurence H. Shoup...
...Norton ($9.95...
...Better wait for the movie...
...Levin's Laws: Winning without Intimidation...
...Morrow ($10.95...
...Mixed in among the gossip notes are the requisite weighty thoughts about the Significance of Public Relations in a Free Society...
...He worries the classical worries—about Marx's labor theory of value, his law of the declining rate of profit, his prediction of increasing immiseration for the working class...
...West German Foreign Policy: 1949-1979...
...The Papacy in Transition...
...Property Tax Relief...
...It clearly demonstrates how and why the countries of OPEC behave as they do, and the effects of their actions on the future of oil, as well as standards of living, and world economic growth...
...But by the time he gets around to asking these questions, time is running out, and Heilbroner ends his guided tour without even a suggestion of how to answer them...
...Edmund White...
...NEW YORK — WORLD CITY Report of the Twentieth Century Fund Task Force on the Future of New York City Background Paper by MASHA SINNREICH Foreword by M. J. ROSSANT (Published for the Twentieth Century Fund, Inc...
...Harcourt Brace Jovanovich ($9.95...
...The Fourth Man: The Definitive Account of Kim Philby...
...On with the job...
...John Hart Ely...
...William E. Griffith...
Vol. 11 • February 1980 • No. 12
