POLITICAL BOOKNOTES
POLITICAL BOOKNOTES The Case for Bureaucracy. Charles T. Goodsell. Chatham House, $8.95. The Case for Gold. Rep. Ron Paul, Lewis Lehrman. Cato Institute, $8.95. The Complete Reagan Diet....
...Corporate Liberalism: The Origins of Modern Political Theory, 18901920...
...William Winpisinger, for instance, is quoted worshipfully, and often...
...Nick Salvatore...
...Because environmental regulation seemed, to some businessmen, a luxury rather than a necessity of health, and because unlike all the uncontrollable forces of world economics it was something businessmen could attack directly using the political machinery, our nation's executives focused all their energy and visceral anger on government rules...
...A trenchant and timely manifesto...
...Six years' hard labor...
...What has to stop is the mindless pattern of raises that are causing decreases in public services...
...Gregg Easterbrook God's Bullies: Power Politics and Religious Tyranny...
...Perry Deane Young...
...Never mind the Moral Majority...
...In the private sector, this same pattern of rising compensation without regard to the employer's ability to pay has been a central factor in our national economic decline...
...Did you notice that China's representative at Brezhnev's funeral, Foreign Minister Huang Hua, was the highest-ranking Chinese to visit Moscow in over a decade, and that Andropov singled him out for special attention...
...Gardner...
...Newak had an impeccable on-the-job record and was scheduled for promotion at the time of her court-martial...
...Bantam, $24.95...
...An original and much-needed book that may not get the credit it deserves...
...Jimmy Carter...
...The Story of Lech Waiesa and Polish Solidarity...
...R. How to Make the Economy Succeed...
...Fred I. Greenstein...
...Jori Raymond (continued from "Tilting at Windmills," page 10) oblivion it so richly deserves...
...of California, $25.00...
...They show, through numerous examples, that factories said to be shut down because of anti-pollution rules usually were scheduled to close for some other reason, the most common being age...
...William Morrow, $2.95...
...The tenth annual McGraw-Hill Survey on Pollution Control Expenditures," the authors write, citing a study taken by businessmen for businessmen, "reported that corporate executives in the nation's major industries attributed less than one percent of plant capacity shut down during the years 1976-78 to environmental and safety regulation...
...Yale, $14.95...
...Mansur Olson...
...The armed forces are so concerned about the retention of capable people that they are offering reenlistment bonuses to 59 percent of their personnel...
...R. Jeffrey Lustig...
...Eringer's thesis that, contrary to Western opinion, there was never a threat of Soviet or East German invasion is interesting but poorly documented...
...Fear at Work: Job Blackmail, Labor and the Environment...
...The writer, a professor of politics at Princeton and one of the more thoughtful of the current crop of political scientists, has produced a valuable addition to the revisionist view of Dwight Eisenhower as a clever and more effective president than conventional historians have acknowledged...
...Phil Keisling The Hidden-Handed Presidency...
...Flo Conway, Jim Siegelman...
...Can you believe it...
...The Rise and Decline of Nations...
...Joann Newak, who the air force has sentenced to six years of hard labor at Ft...
...The authors conducted extensive psychological studies of student radicals of the late 1960s and early 1970s and found them driven more by a Machiavellian lust for power than utopian ideals...
...Basic, $16.95...
...In the state and federal civil service, the need for raises is even less—confined to the small minority, certainly not more than five percent, who could really make a lot more money elsewhere...
...Richard Kazis, Richard L. Grossman...
...I am indebted to Colman McCarthy for calling my attention to the case of Lt...
...Charles Peters...
...The book also examines why Jews, especially Jewish students, are so disproportionately at the forefront of radical movements...
...There was not enough response to warrant continuing the question...
...The number of county government workers decreased last year by 45,000, while county payrolls increased by 7.6 percent...
...Teresa Riordan Strike for Freedom...
...of Illinois, $24.95...
...Stanley Rothman, S. Robert Lichter...
...Eugene V. Debs: Citizen and Socialist...
...Pilgrim Press, $10.95...
...Los Angeles has eliminated 1,995 jobs, reduced street repaving from once every 40 years to once every 120 years, cut down library hours to five a day, while increasing to 75 percent the proportion of its budget devoted to salaries and fringe benefits, including $98,908 to its police chief and $93,688 to its fire chief...
...Dodd, Mead, $11.95...
...Business was busy complaining and begging Washington for relief, while Japan was busy stealing markets...
...J. Morton Davis...
...Conway and Siegelman's rhetoric makes Jerry Falwell look reasonable...
...It's enough to make you glad they abolished graduate school deferments...
...Newak...
...There's some good description of fundamentalist political activities, but here, too, the authors ruin their credibility with their intolerance of born-again—the same closedmindedness they decry—and frequent use of hysterical statements like "we may soon be living in an America reborn of total propaganda and surrender to the supernatural...
...But the author seems unaware of the decline of the countervailing power of the political parties as an important factor in the increasing dominance of the lobbies in America...
...Losing a capable officer when the armed forces say they're short of capable people...
...these two indict even the most apolitical brand of fundamentalism for every crime from imperialism to threatening national security—Conway and Siegelman contend that American soldiers are neglecting their duties in order to hold Bible study and type Scripture into their radar consoles...
...Univ...
...And perhaps it helps explain the economic tailspin of the 1970s...
...They don't have to give Lt...
...It exposes the hypocrisy of New Right leaders and ideas in an engagingly personal, funny, and thought-provoking way...
...In more recent surveys McGraw-Hill stopped asking executives about environmentally related shut downs and job loss...
...Here our valiant executive was, after all, doing battle with the other economic menaces of modern times— foreign competition, fuel prices, interest rates—and along comes government to add an extra task...
...Some of the findings are interesting, but you have to travel down a Ho Chi Minh trail of academic jargon and dead prose to get to them...
...With teachers we should concentrate on raises for good teachers only—let the marginal ones quit if they want to—particularly the good math and science teachers whose salaries may have to be increased as much as 50 to 100 percent to keep them from seeking private employment...
...Leavenworth, Kansas...
...Newak a bonus—just let her out of Leavenworth...
...P. Roots of Radicalism: Jews, Christians, and the New Left...
...Yes, God's Bullies is the book that says NCPAC's Terry Dolan is gay...
...When business executives should have been working on their real problems—competition and innovations—instead they spent their time feeling sorry for themselves over what Kazis and Grossman have shown to be a false problem...
...That decline, along with some of its causes and some possible cures, is the subject of this issue...
...Doubleday, $17.95...
...An investment banker urges a needbased Social Security system, a "workfare" program, a national service program, curbs on the power of the Fed, a leaner defense budget, and a tax system that encourages productive investment...
...Instead of offering bonuses to 59 percent of all personnel—which is bound to include not only people you aren't that anxious to hold onto but also people in cushy jobs they would fight to keep—the bonuses should be concentrated on the skilled who are truly ham to .-etain, . . . The same principle should be applied to other areas of public employment...
...The authors of a previous book on cult religions now attempt to reduce born-again Christianity to that status...
...The thesis of this brilliant book is that the longer a society enjoys political stability, the more likely it is to develop powerful special-interest lobbies that . in turn make it less efficient economically...
...Tina Rosenberg Holy Terror: The Fundamentalist War on America's Freedoms in Religion, Politics and Our Private Lives...
...It may be that the Reagan administration has succeeded in throwing away the one useful legacy of the Nixon-Ford years— the exploitation of the Sino-Soviet split that diverted our enemies' hostility from us to one another...
...Oxford, $27.95...
...However short-sighted, it is understandable...
...This very readable account of the charismatic electrician and the movement he inspired offers a dramatic overview of Solidarity's 16-month struggle but very little critical analysis...
...Univ...
...The book is likely to meet a cool reception because its authors work for Environmentalists for Full Employment, a union-related outfit, and pad their otherwise carefully analytical book with canned labor Muzak...
...During this recession year, state and local wage increases nationwide are actually higher than they were last year...
...Holt, Rinehart, $13.50...
...I suspect businessmen grew furious over environmental regulations themselves, but only because they were the last straw...
...Keeping Faith...
...Her sins were confined to her off-base apartment, where she occasionally smoked marijuana, had an affair with another woman, and possessed pills that were alleged to be amphetamines but by the air force's own tests turned out to be simple diet pills...
...Robert Bringer...
...Jeff Danziger...
...But Young's book is more than just gossip and isn't the alarmist reaction to the New Right we are used to seeing...
...Equally important, Kazis and Grossman, after showing big business's claims about the burdensome nature of environmental regulation to be greatly exaggerated, never suggest why businessmen grew so bitter about pollution rules in the first place...
...Kazis and Grossman present a catalog of evidence that environmental regulations are not the crushing burden some businessmen have claimed, and the Reagan administration assumed...
...What this book makes clear is that Carter was wrong, not in being suspicious of Washington (it often does place its own interests above the public's) but in not understanding it well enough to guard against its worst and bring out its best...
...In general, by the way, I think the military's bonus policy is as stupid as the persecution of Lt...
...In New York, Ed Koch has instituted a hiring freeze on city employees while agreeing to a I 5-percent increase in salaries over the next two years...
Vol. 14 • December 1982 • No. 10
