The 14th Annual Political Book Awards
The 14th Annual Political Book Awards The Political Book Award or 1983 goes to In Search of Excellence: Lessons From America's Best-Run Companies, by Thomas J. Peters and Robert H. Waterman...
...they may love or hate George Patton, but finally they can judge his record...
...Finalists are listed below...
...People may argue over David Stockman, but eventually they can examine the effect of his ideas...
...Of particular value is her exploration of the difference between "hard" and "soft" money—the latter being campaign money that gets around expenditure limits by being funneled through independent committees...
...Drew's book is the best overview available today of the PAC problem...
...and The Wizards of Armageddon, by Fred Kaplan...
...Elizabeths E. Fuller Torrey McGraw-Hill, $19.95 The Rosenberg File: A Search for the Truth Ronald Radosh and Joyce Milton Holt, Rinehart, and Winston, $22.50 The Tarnished Door: The New Immigrants and the Transformation of America John Crewdson Times Books, $17.95 The Threat: Inside the Soviet Military Machine Andrew Cockburn Random House, $16.95 Why Courts Don't Work Richard Neely McGraw-Hill, $15.95/$7.95...
...Therefore, the force of the contending personalities, their dexterousness at theoretical argument and political positioning, could shape the doctrine under which these weapons of destruction are deployed!' We would add further that a full understanding of personalities such as Herman Kahn, Albert Wohlstetter, and Bernard Brodie makes their strategic theories far more accessible than they have ever been in the past...
...For a discussion of In Search of Excellence, see Phillip Keisling's article, "Economics Without Numbers" on page 40...
...The 14th Annual Political Book Awards The Political Book Award or 1983 goes to In Search of Excellence: Lessons From America's Best-Run Companies, by Thomas J. Peters and Robert H. Waterman Jr...
...THE FINALISTS America's Hidden Success: A Reassessment of Twenty Years of Public Policy John E. Schwartz Norton, $19.95 The Anatomy of Power John Kenneth Galbraith Houghton Mifflin, $15.95 The Command and Control of Nuclear Forces Paul Bracken Yale University Press, $19.95 Dangerous Currents: The State of Economics Lester Thurow Random House, $16.95 The Diplomats Martin Mayer Doubleday, $17.95 Down & Out in the Great Depression Robert McElvaine, editor University of North Carolina Press, $23/$8.95 Farewell to the Party of Lincoln: Black Politics in the Age of FDR Nancy J. Weiss Princeton University Press, $32.50/$12.50 Fiasco Jack Anderson with James Boyd Times Books, $17.50 In the Shadow of FDR: From Harry Truman to Ronald Reagan William E. Leuchtenburg Cornell University Press, $19.95 Inevitable Revolutions: The United States in Central America Walter Lafeber Norton, $18.95...
...Drew's book addresses a familiar problem—the pernicious influence of PACs on our politics—but she brings to her book a fine sense of the details of political life and a genuine outrage over the corruption that PACs can breed...
...Industrial Renaissance William J. Abernathy, Kim B. Clark, Alan M. Kantrow Basic Books, $19 The Next American Frontier Robert B. Reich Times Books, $16.60 The Oil Follies of 1970-1980 Robert Sherrill Anchor/Doubleday, $19.95 On Reagan Ronnie Dugger McGraw-Hill, $19.95 The Other Candidates Frank Smallwood University Press of New England, $20/$9.95 Profits Without Production Seymour Melman Knopf $18.95 The Roots of Treason: Ezra Pound and the Secret of St...
...Politics and Money: The New Road to Corruption, by Elizabeth Drew...
...Fred Kaplan's The Wizards of Armageddon is a vivid collective portrait of the Defense intellectuals who have shaped our nuclear policy...
...Reviewing the book in our September issue, James Fallows noted that Kaplan's emphasis on "personality" is effective because of the narrative's "control and finesse;' and because, "more than most other areas of public affairs, personalities are policy...
...There can be no empirical test of [nuclear] theories—unless they are proven to have failed by the outbreak of a war...
Vol. 16 • March 1984 • No. 2
