political book notes
political book notes Public affairs books to be published in October After Shocks: A Tale of Two Victims. David Bain. Methuen, $10.95. Alley Life in Washington: Family, Community, Religion, and...
...Polls treat as independent blips of data questions that are, in the real world, related to many other things...
...Corporations and Their Critics...
...By her own admission, O'Reilly does a lot of raving on this subject...
...Harper & Row, $15.95...
...In Our Time...
...Ideology and Popular Protest...
...Raymond Sokolov...
...Alley Life in Washington: Family, Community, Religion, and Folklore in the City, 1850-1970...
...William O. Douglas...
...Douglas Terman...
...Polling on the Issues...
...Donna Fenn The Graying of America...
...Ann Seidman, Neva Seidman Makgetla...
...There is a certain poignancy about the journey: the passionate fiction he wrote for The Atlantic (based on his wartime experiences' in the Pacific) gradually gave way to stodgy pontificating about U.S.-Soviet relations...
...James F. Simon...
...Atom Bomb Spies...
...James Fallows Wayward Reporter: The Life of A.J...
...Her writing is at its best when she isn't trying so hard...
...Many a housewife recalls the instant when she realized she has been an economist, engineer, psychologist, and arbitrator for little more reward than a pat on the behind...
...This portrait is the more effective in its praise for being so faithful to the unpleasant evidence...
...of Illinois, $11.95...
...The book's contributors, all professionals in some aspect of polling, endorse the existence of polls, if not their performance...
...Jane O'Reilly...
...A Time for Action...
...But while the contributors are aware of polling's drawbacks, they don't seem to have a scheme for reform...
...Paved with Good Intentions: The American Experience and Iran...
...H. Montgomery Hyde...
...Roland Flamini...
...Bill Granger, Lori Granger...
...Henry J. Merry...
...Ronald G. Ridker, William D. Watson...
...Its only weakness is that—by giving insufficient weight to the evidence against Hiss and the Rosenbergs, to the impact of Czechoslovakia and Korea, and to the horrors of Stalinism—it fails to fully explore the reasonable story behind unreasonable behavior...
...The answer to this "what if/" is "so what...
...Yale, $17.50...
...McGraw-Hill, $J0/$2.95...
...And while one of the system's goals, stopping the expanding use of resources, is admirable, all steady-state would do is prolong the agony...
...Albert Lee...
...The steady-state economy is easy to ridicule...
...government ownership and allocation of resources...
...Henry Ford and the Jews...
...Macmillan, $10.95...
...Scribner's, $2.95...
...James Borchert...
...Lawrence Hill, $15.95...
...There are expiration dates (by year, not hour) for whole catalogs of minerals...
...Domestic Intelligence: Monitoring Dissent in America...
...Social Justice in the Liberal State...
...This is the year of "What If...
...Univ...
...of Texas, $13.95...
...Paths to Political Reform...
...His search fora world to his liking took him from the postwar presidency of the United World Federalists to a quarter-century in the CIA...
...Farrar, Straus & Giroux, $12.95...
...Jane O'Reilly says this is a "Click!," the proverbial moment of truth...
...and "constant-stock industrial capital," meaning factories must produce exactly the same amount of the same stuff every year...
...Barry Rubin...
...Cord Meyer...
...First Strike...
...More worrying about critical materials...
...Dial, $12.95...
...Herman E. Daly, ed...
...This remarkable book tells why and should be read by everyone who doesn't want it to happen again...
...McGraw-Hill, $14.95...
...A strange, sometimes intriguing, and finally unsatisfying autobiographical book by a man who remains mysterious even after explaining himself at great length...
...Pat Martin Pope, Premier, President...
...Univ...
...William J. Crotly, ed...
...He is also so scrupulous a biographer that, intentionally or not, he provides the additional facts that sugggest the twists and snobberies of Lippmann's character, and the drawbacks of journalism that relies on Great- Man sources and makes the writer a Great Man...
...Pantheon, $10.95/$4.95 Independent Journey: The Life of William 0. Douglas...
...Flamini's adulatory treatment of Kennedy's imaginary actions is embarrassing to anyone who loved JFK for what he was, but understood what he was not...
...No one can make or even buy anything without permission from several branches of government...
...Thornton Bradshaw, David Vogel...
...Andrew Tully...
...Thus they inhibit government by supplying short-term opposition to just about everything, but cannot be used to chart a course of progress...
...James A. Jorgensen...
...Frank Bowman CIA...
...William E. Simon...
...Steady-state theory is predicated on a staggering increase in the power of the state over the individual...
...Be thankful a steady-state economy was not achieved the day they rolled out the first finned Caddy...
...33.50...
...Their account is clear, sympathetic and full of Chicago flavor...
...Lippmann's early career was a combination of intellectual precocity and fawning attentions to a series of powerful patrons...
...Univ...
...It demands absolutely no population growth or shifts anywhere...
...At his height, he consorted as a near-equal with kings and presidents, and was guarded by a wife who hushed little children when he played tennis, kept focusing attention on him at parties, and abandoned him to a nursing home after he had given up his column and lost his place in the spotlight...
...Thomas N. Bethell Fighting Jane...
...Victor Navasky...
...McGraw-Hill, $14.95...
...Cord Meyer writes of every stage of his life— even the agony of losing an eye in combat— with diffidence, as though fearful of approaching too close...
...You have to admire the authors...
...Atheneum, $12.95...
...Freeman, $7.95...
...of Illinois, $18.95...
...Dial, $10.95...
...Seven Locks Press, $11.95...
...George Rude...
...political book notes Public affairs books to be published in October After Shocks: A Tale of Two Victims...
...The Court Years: 1939-1975...
...Industry would be frozen into today's gluttonous pattern, making innovations to lower resource consumption unlikely...
...Charles Peters Outpost of Monopoly Capitalism: Southern Africa in the Changing Global Economy...
...Ronald Steel...
...Viking, $15.95...
...Either he still doesn't know what it was, or he hasn't the nerve to tell...
...Random House, $16.95...
...Economics, Ecology, Ethics: Essays Toward a Steady-State Economy...
...Meyer appears to have had a close encounter long ago with something deeply personal and fearsome...
...Hal Handerson Walter Lippmann and the American Century...
...Naming Names...
...Harper & Row, $15.95...
...Bruce A. Ackerman...
...Here, Time's Vatican correspondent con- trives a hypothetical meeting of Pope John XXIII, Khrushchev, and John Kennedy to "discuss world peace...
...If you're willing to accept the author's assumption that prices never go up (so producers never go after harder-to-get deposits), things look scary...
...Five-Branch Government: The Full Measure of Constitutional Checks and Balances...
...In this "pseudo-parliamentary" system, the only available vote is no confidence...
...Albert H. Cantril, ed...
...Lexington, $26.95...
...A truly important book, not only for what it says about the 50 years of political history Lippmann lived through and sometimes shaped but also for the incidental evidence it offers about the nature of journalism and the construction of careers...
...Inside the FBI...
...Tom Wolfe...
...P.M...
...in fact, they provide a sort of "pseudo-parliamentary" system...
...Macmillan, $10.95...
...Harper & Row, $15...
...Steel means to demonstrate Lippmann's insight and importance, and he does...
...The rest reads like photograph captions—elaborate descriptions of Church procedures, even wardrobe...
...To Choose a Future...
...Richard E. Morgan...
...After outfitting this geological haunted house, they still have the courage to quote Mark Twain on the dangers of extrapolating to extremes: "One gets such wholesale returns of conjecture out of such a trifling investment of fact...
...The public has more voice with them than without them...
...The Girl I Left Behind...
...Atlantic Monthly Press, $19.95...
...In the late 1940s and early '50s, why did the system demand and why did decent men yield the names of people who were for the most part guilty of no more than membership in the Communist Party or one of its fronts...
...Oxford, $17.50...
...Extraordinary things have happened in his life— from his Cold War blacklisting (because of his involvement with one-worlders), to the eerie murder of his estranged wife by a neveridentified assailant, to his clandestine manipulation of the National Student Association (exposed with great gusto by Ramparts in 1967)—but he writes about them as though they had happened to someone else...
...Stein & Day, $12.95...
...Johns Hopkins...
...Jane Byrne is more interested in herself than her city, according to the authors, a veteran Chicago reporter and his wife...
...Liebling...
Vol. 12 • October 1980 • No. 8
