POLITICAL BOOKNOTES
POLITICAL BOOKNOTES Afghanistan and the Soviet Union. Henry S. Bradsher. Duke University, $30/$12.50. After Long Silence. Michael Straight. Norton, $17.50. The American Style of...
...Consequences of Party Reform...
...Yale, $14.95...
...John Harris Too Hot to Handle: Social and Policy Issues in the Management of Radioactive Wastes...
...Viktor Suvorov...
...American Enterprise Institute, $14.95...
...Nelson W. Polsby...
...What disappoints is the author's failure to offer suggestions more concrete than his call for organizations to develop mechanisms to "resolve disputes with dissidents fairly...
...Mark Heller...
...What sort of information did the CIA delete...
...A Palestinian State: The Implications for Israel...
...Morrow, $15.95...
...Martin's, $8.95...
...Ten Presidents and the Press...
...Houghton Mifflin, $13.95...
...Most," Suvorov says, "do not know how to read a map...
...McGehee writes that if he hadn't had the help of ACLU lawyer Mark Lynch to guide him through the Kafka-esque process, the book wouldn't have been published at all...
...Arvo Tuominen...
...The News Business...
...Charles A. Walker, Leroy C. Gould, Edward J. Woodhouse, eds...
...Her recurring insistence that "communist subversion" is so important that the U.S...
...University of New England...
...The soldiers themselves also lack sophistication...
...David Holloway...
...Deadly Deceits: My 25 Years in the CIA...
...Unlike other embittered former CIA agents, the author chose to submit his manuscript to the CIA's Publications Review Board before it was printed...
...Paul Theroux...
...Crunch of Giants...
...While America's military planners seem obsessed with a few, highly sophisticated (and often unreliable) weapons, the Soviets tend toward an opposite extreme...
...The results are mixed...
...Simon & Schuster, $19.95...
...Peter Goldman, Tony Fuller...
...Joan Didion...
...John Wiley...
...Neither gambit worked, though the CIA still succeeded in deleting dozens of passages, which are marked in the text...
...McGehee wanted to report that the agency had close connections to Thai police organizations, a point revealed years earlier in a book written at the behest of the CIA itself...
...Phil Keisling The War Against Hitler: Military Strategy in the West...
...Dial, $19.95...
...University Press of America, $17.50 /$7.25 This short volume is a transcript of conversations between veteran journalists and academicians participating in a recent symposium on press-president relations since Woodrow Wilson...
...Karl Grossman...
...The review board sought to excise that reference as well as a point about a "technique" that turned out to be nothing more than recruiting-agents from the other side, which, as the author notes, is a profession almost as old and well-known as prostitution...
...This slim volume, while demonstrating that John Kenneth Galbraith retains his graceful writing style and pungent wit, is a disappointment...
...17.95...
...Thomas Karas...
...Inside the Soviet Army...
...All of them are in flight from communism...
...Herbert S. Parmet...
...But underneath the predictable anti-Soviet cliches and turgid style, something of value occasionally appears...
...Simon & Schuster, $18.95...
...Hippocrene, $22.50...
...The London Embassy...
...R. Bucktninster Fuller...
...Albert A. Nofi...
...Charlie Company: What Vietnam Did to Us...
...John Kenneth Galbraith...
...Christopher Freeman...
...James Gibney JFK: The Presidency of John F. Kennedy...
...Considering what the Supreme Court did to Frank Snepp after he refused to submit his work, McGehee didn't have much choice—even though, like Snepp (and unlike Philip Agee), he had no intention of revealing classified information...
...Indeed, though the morale of soldiers is often the most imporant factor on the battlefield, Suvorov believes that it is so low among his former colleagues that "if war with the West should break out, Soviet soldiers would surrender by the millions...
...Harvard, $16...
...Yale, $20/$5.95...
...MIT $25...
...Thomas Freedman The Economies of Industrial Innovation...
...The author, an officer in the Soviet army for 14 years, shares the same phobia as Caspar Weinberger: "In the world today, there are millions of refugees...
...The Poison Consipiracy...
...Macmillan, $15.95...
...Kirkpatrick offers some telling criticisms of the United Nations, but in her unalloyed defense of conservative policies she proves more tiresome and dogmatic than convincing...
...First, the agency tried to delete information about Southeast Asia that had already been disclosed in the Pentagon Papers, claiming, incredibly, that the Pentagon Papers had not been "officially released" (which should be news to high-school term paper writers across the country...
...Ralph W. McGehee...
...Harper & Row, $12.95...
...Michelle Gilbert Salvador...
...Robert Dalbek...
...Time is ripe for such a reevaluation...
...Sheridan Square Publications, $7.95...
...Final Judgment: My Lifeas a Soviet Defense Attorney...
...Old Soviet weapons never die, they just get mothballed, and vintage World War II smooth-bore mortars are preferred to the newer, more accurate rifled variety because they are cheaper to mass-produce...
...Simon & Schuster, $14.95...
...The author, managing editor of Harvard Business Review, examines the current state of employee rights and the ways dissent can improve corporate productivity...
...Jonathan Alter Do It My Way or You're Fired...
...Simon & Schuster, $12.95...
...John Chancellor, Walter Mears...
...The American Style of Foreign Policy...
...A General's Life: An Autobiography...
...and though they offer his thoughts on the pressing issues of the day (the arms race is self-destructive, the nuclear freeze is praiseworthy, Reaganomics is silly), they offer little in the way of new insights...
...The Belts of the Kremlin...
...Harvard, $8.95...
...Knopf, $16.95...
...The essays here, by Galbraith's own admission, are little more than edited versions of lectures he gave last year in India...
...The numerous case histories make for good reading and the author's main point—that everyone suffers in offices where good ideas remain locked in the lower levels of the office bureaucracy because workers fear criticism from intolerant managers— is well taken...
...Oxford, $17.50...
...Permanent Press, $15.95 The Reagan Phenomenon—And Other Speeches on Foreign Policy...
...Kenneth W. Thompson, ed...
...Then, the agency tried to reclassify previously declassified information under a Reagan executive order that was then only in draft form...
...The New High Ground: Systems and Weapons of Space Age War...
...The appendix covering his hassles with the review board is the most intriguing part of this otherwise familiar tale of a man who entered the agency as a super-patriot and left in 1977 seething with anger over the CIA's immorality and incompetence (they couldn't even get his commendation right...
...Jeane J. Kirkpatrick...
...One wishes that Galbraith might instead apply his considerable talents to a fresh examination of the economic theories (his own included) that have so far proved unable to explain fully the current global recession...
...This collection of speeches and essays is a vivid and disturbing example of a world view that sees human rights and all other concerns in Cold War terms...
...Though this group (which includes former White House correspondents Chalmers Roberts and Robert Donovan) can't resist the occasional temptation to dwell on the obvious, it's a worthwhile book (particularly for its anecdotes) for those interested in the evolution of the presidential press conference from the informal gatherings around FDR's desk to the orchestrated media event of today...
...David W. Ewing...
...Dina Katninskaya...
...The Soviet Union and the Arms Race...
...should overlook the transgressions of its allies undermines her arguments by displaying the same simplistic thinking she accuses conventional liberals of applying to foreign policy issues...
...Omar N. Bradley, Clay Blair...
...The Voice of the Poor: Essays in Economic and Political Persuasion...
Vol. 15 • March 1983 • No. 1
