political book notes
political book notes Andrew Johnson and the Uses of Constitutional Power. James E. Sefton. Little, Brown, $9.95. Bones of Contention: An Enquiry into East- West Relations. Terence Garvey. St....
...Lexington, $I 7.95...
...Leo Rangell, M. D. Norton, $1 2.95...
...political book notes Andrew Johnson and the Uses of Constitutional Power...
...Lightening the load is a helpful step...
...Alvin Tofyer...
...Society needs a crackling current of high-voltage energy and, for the next decades, must burn fossil fuels to get it...
...One essay, for instance, describes the tranquil harmony of the early years of gasoline, when you got the stuff from a seldomused spigot in front of the general store, and some eager high school lad had to crank it up by hand because there were no electric pumps...
...Then he goes on to demonstrate that poorly funded challengers, whatever their merits, almost never win...
...Richard Curtis, Elizabeth Hogan, with Sheldon Horowitz...
...We must pump more and more sulpher into the airmore of a suffocating gas Nature long ago determined was best bound to coal and buried...
...Viking, $14.95...
...7he Energv Book leaves the lingering impression that, if God had wanted us to use oil, He would have left it lying around in pools...
...E. Taking the Fifth: The Supreme Court and the Privilege Against Self-Incrimination...
...Here it is, your worst suspicion about campaigning confirmed-the most important factor in beating an incumbent congressman, Jacobson says, is raising money...
...Gary C. Jacobson...
...Using statistical analyses of the last four congressional elections, Jacobson shows how much easier it is for incumbents to raise campaign chests...
...Yale, $15...
...Inflation, Interest, and Growth...
...Mc Gra w- Hill, $I 2.95...
...Economic Sanity or Collapse...
...me Energy Book‘s authors are scholars and scientists of impressive credentials, and yet they fall for the popular notion that love of oil is the root of all evil...
...Hans Brems...
...Shrinking Dollars, Vanishing Jobs...
...Coward, McCann & Geoghegan, $9.95...
...Any benign power like solar energy, and any voluntary reductions in the use of energy-the dipole policy advocated by The Energy Bookwill serve us well...
...Another scholarly book on an overdocumented subject-but, surprise, it’s one you can read without coming away looking like an extra from Dawn of the Dead...
...Cronin does priceless little things for the reader, like breaking up the book into 1,000- word increments set off by clever subheads...
...Lexington, $1 7.95...
...The Energy Book does...
...But oil is great stuff-cheap, easy to process and use, clean-burning...
...nomas McKeown...
...Remember the good old days of manual labor, when broken backs were common, when travel was a grueling risk, when every cold spell took with it the weak and elderly...
...Norton...
...It’s a collection of nostalgic essays about how much better off we were before cheap energy, and why we should look forward to the day when it runs out...
...And he didn’t have to complete the catalog by giving us selfevident paradoxes like “Active in Some Areas at Some Times but Passive in Other Areas at Other Times...
...It’s clear and crisp, and will not bore youqualities so rare in writing about the presidency that they alone make the book praiseworthy...
...Roger D. Blair, Stephen Rubin, eds...
...This should not prevent us from using coal, or anything else that serves our purposes...
...we would have all been born naked...
...Morrow, $12.95...
...Lexington, $27.95...
...The Last Bull Market: Wall Street in the 1960s...
...The State of the Presidency...
...In so doing, however, our vision should not stop at the day they electrified the gas pumps...
...Getting off the oil standard may sound wonderful, but it forces us into a much more delicate re-location of the elements...
...Stephen Greene Press, $11.95...
...Andrew Levison...
...Welcome to freeze-in-thedark chic...
...Sulpher will do us far more damage than the byproducts of oil combustion ever did...
...That much is no surprise...
...Britain’s Oil...
...The Third Wave...
...The Dream of the Golden Mountains: Remembering the 1930s...
...Wealth Addiction...
...The Pillars of the Post: The Making of a News Empire...
...Wayne Hanley, John Mitchell, eds...
...Hamish Hamilton, $25...
...Brick House, $6.95...
...Philip Slater...
...Thomas E. Cronin...
...Kathleen Courrier, ed...
...Dick Cluster, Nancy Rutter, and the Staff of Dollars & Sense Magazine...
...Robert Sobel...
...Martin’s, $12.95...
...An excerpt begins on page 59 of this issue...
...The Jury: Its Role in American Society...
...The Role of Medicine: Dream, Mirage, or Nemesis...
...Cronin breaks the central questions of the presidency up into its paradoxes: “The Common Man Who Gives an Uncommon Performance,” “The Longer He is There The Less We Like Him...
...Nuclear Lessons: An Examination of the Health, Safety and Economic Record of Nuclear Power...
...The only thing wrong with oil is that we can’t get enough of it anymore...
...Howard Bray...
...Lexington, $23.95...
...12.95 Life After ‘80: Environmental Choices We Can Live With...
...Martin Mayer...
...Times, $15...
...Little, Brown, $14.95...
...But it shouldn’t make us giddy with anticipation...
...The occasional poorly funded incumbent can prevail, but it seldom works the other way, Jacobson says, and his argument is convincing...
...11.95...
...Helping the reader along is scoffed at as a sign of weakness in academic writing, because it acknowledges the temporal realm in which the doorbell rings, the mind wanders, and sometimes you get up and get a beer...
...Government Requirements of Small Business...
...Lexington, $18.95...
...Money in Congressional Elections...
...Norton...
...If you feel cheated that the energy crisis has yet to destroy Western civilization, this is the book for you...
...Regulating the Professions...
...Beacon, $12.95/$5.95...
...Roland J. Cole, Philip D. Tegeler...
...Oh, looks, charm, issues, maybe a splash of integrity helps, but most of your clout comes from the purse...
...1 don’t think he precisely hits the explanation-which is, I believe, that presidents have very little power but spend so much time trying to seem as if they do that they generate all the negative emotions of powerwielding- but that’s just taste...
...Malcolm Cowleji...
...Well, if God had wanted us to have sex...
...The Energy Book...
...Princeton...
...Guy Arnold...
...Gregg Easrerbrook The Fate of the Dollar...
...Rita J. Simon...
...Stackpole, $16.95...
...Mark Berger...
...This will probably cost Cronin points among his colleagues, but makes readers thankful...
...His book seems to strive after nailing down the central paradox: that every president is “always too powerful and yet always inadequate...
...Gerald R. Zoffer...
...The Mind of Watergate: A Study of the Compromise of Integrity...
...Dutton...
...The Full Employment Alternative...
Vol. 12 • March 1980 • No. 1
