Political Book Notes
Political Book Notes American Academics: Then and Now. Logan Wilson. Oxford, $13.95. As It Happened: A Memoir. William S. Paley. Doubleday, $14.95. The Celebration of Heroes: Prestige as...
...Boston Study Group...
...At the level of conventional guns and bombs, the group advocates a severe reduction in the forces maintained for the purpose of joining “brushfire” wars, on the grounds that this readiness only invites superpower confrontation...
...Using a few of these insights, and a general willingness to question the goals of our military policy, The Price of Defense provides a good, readable, example of the sort of analysis that liberal “doves” should have been engaging in for years...
...Kwitny’s book is not concerned with porno, prostitution, and other “victimless crimes,” but with the right of Americans to buy food and clothing without paying a tithe to support a network of scoundrels...
...Putnam, $10.95...
...America's primary concern with the world around us is rapidly shifting from Europe to Asia...
...Stephen R. Graubard, ed...
...The deadly cloud and its contents are the centerpiece of author Thomas Whiteside’s indictment of the chemical industry and those charged with regulating it...
...Basic, $17.501 $6.95...
...Coward, McCann & Geoghegan, $15.95...
...The Day America Crashed...
...Japan, Korea, and China is one of a growing number of books that address these changing perspectives...
...The Streets Were Paved With Gold...
...And while the U.S...
...But in some of his accounts he is devastating-as when he discusses the meat industry and the Teamsters...
...Ken Auletta...
...Michael O'Brien...
...Leonard Reed...
...Patricia Nosher Innocents of the West: Travels Through the Sixties...
...In 1976, an article by Professor Dwight Smith in the Annals of the American Academy of Political Science concluded that the Mafia doesn’t exist, that it is a phony notion Americans embrace because of their “conspiracy phobia...
...The Ides of March Conspiracy: The Year the IRS Got What It Deserves...
...William J. Goode...
...Johns Hopkins, $16...
...Unfortunately, the section on China is largely a recital of the pros and cons of normalization, which has been overtaken by events...
...The Corporate Personality: An Inquiry Into the Nature of Corporate Identity...
...Arbor House, $9.95...
...Basic, $15...
...In particular, he is concerned with a chemical byproduct known as dioxin...
...The Pendulum and the Toxic Cloud: The Course of Dioxin contamination...
...At the strategic (Le...
...Japan, Korea, and China: American Perceptions and Policies...
...Tom Schachtman...
...What this incident demonstrates, concludes the Boston Study Group, is that the advantage in modern conventional warfare has shifted dramatically to the defense...
...University of California, $18.50...
...The Celebration of Heroes: Prestige as a Control System...
...Kwitny, a reporter for The Wall Street Journal, whose exhaustive research for this book was done in streets, alleys, bars, police corridors, uhion halls, and similar grimyaplaces far from academe, has a message for Smith: “Yes, Professor, there is a Mafia...
...Dan Ambrose The Rise of Theodore Roosevelt...
...the apparent ability to launch a successful first strike...
...While Matthews has fashioned a serious takeoff point for his novel-the techniques, in a cybernetic society, for real and potential manipulation, for governmental invasion of privacy, and even for international blackmail-his creative data bank for plotting could use some reprogramming...
...here the authors seem to underestimate the extent to which America’s post-Vietnam inhibitions more than counteract any such tendency...
...Thomas Thomas Whiteside...
...To these e n d s , t h e a u t h o r s a d v o c a t e eliminating our redundant nuclear strike f o r c e , l e a v i n g only o u r v i r t u a l l y invulnerable sub-launched missiles and a few land-based ICBM’s as a hedge...
...A new era, with profound economic and strategic implica,tions, has opened between China and the United States...
...Random House, $12.95...
...His coverage of the infiltration of the Mafia into the fabric of the American marketplace, including banking and finance, is sometimes cursory, if only because the ground to be covered is $0 enormous...
...The Environmental Protection Hustle...
...In 1977, for the first time our trade with Asia surpassed our trade with Europe...
...Even our relations with the Soviet Union will increasingly be focused on that nation as an Asian rather than European power...
...Trade between Japan and the United States is the largest that has ever taken place between two nations across an ocean...
...by armed ballistic missiles...
...An excerpt was published in the February 1979 issue of The Washington Monthly...
...Geofsre I’ 0 ’Gam The Price of Defense: A New Strategy for Military Spending...
...greater security at 40 per cent less than we are now spending...
...Bernard Frieden...
...military eventually acknowledged the toxin’s danger to human life and banned the use of such herbicides in Vietnam, millions of acres of pasture and cropland in this country are being sprayed with it to this day...
...Norton, $12.95...
...nuclear) level, the book argues that there is no defense for a direct attack on the U.S...
...Edmund Morris...
...Rosabeth Moss Kanter, Barry A. Stein, eds...
...In the Yom KippuI War, the Egyptians managed to knock out 130 expensive Israeli tanks in two hours with inexpensive antitank missiles...
...A New America...
...On July 10, 1976, a white cloud rose from a Swiss-owned chemical plant north of Milan, Italy, and drifted south, settling Over the small community of Seveso...
...Wally O h . Mayflower, $12.50...
...Since the same advantage accrues to our forces defending Western Europe, they say, it is wrong to assume that we must match the Russians dollar-for-dollar along that front...
...William Watts, George R. Packard, Ralph N. Clough, Robert B. Oxnam...
...and the right of a union man to kfiow that he 1s not being gypped out of his pension...
...Vicious Circles: The Mafia in the Marketplace...
...So our defense depends on our ability to assure destruction in returnand, above all, we must avoid threatening our adversary into a preemptive strike...
...The weakest part of Whiteside’s argument is his primary example: while the Seveso cloud clearly had at least some impact on the health of many of those exposed to its residue, Whiteside admits late in the book that it has produced a -‘relatively light scattering of ill-effects so t a r . ” But his p o r t r a i t of bumbling investigators and government officials, slow evacuation, sloppy decontamination and quarantine, and a wary and unhappily displaced populace, goes a long way toward explaining why the record on Seveso is unreliable...
...The Idea of the American South...
...Leonard Reed Life in Organizations: Workplaces as People Experience Them...
...the right of the consumer to know that the meat that has passed government inspection is not contaminated...
...Joan Colebrook...
...All of these rights are being systematically violated by the operations of the Mafia...
...Clyde Matthews...
...Jonathan Kwitny...
...Norton, $12.95...
...Dioxin, Whiteside writes, was present not only in the Seveso cloud, but also in the herbicides with which the Vietnamese countryside was doused and defoliated in ~ i l ela te 1960s...
...the right to patronize merchants who choose their products or ingredients on the basis of cost and quality, free from intimidation...
...The book persuasively argues for a military posture that, according to the authors, would afford the U.S...
...Times, $15...
...The authors are a t their b e s t i n discussing the relationship between the United States and Japan-in their view the most important bilateral relationship each of the two will have in the years ahead...
...The story becomes a mishmash of u n d e r n o u r i s h e d m o t i v a t i o n s , either unlikely or predictable dramatic turns, and, in a heavy effort for plausibility, the kitchen-sink pile of devices of federal agency dirty work from our recent past...
...Yale, $15/$4.95...
...MIT, $12.50...
...Lexington, $15.95...
...They would p r o h i b i t work on advanced technology that might give the U.S...
Vol. 11 • March 1979 • No. 1
