POLITICAL BOOKNOTES
POLITICAL BOOKNOTES Powerplay: What Really Happened at Bendix. Mary Cunningham with Fran Schumer. Linden Press, $15.95. "Which of the saints, I wondered, had ever lived through a...
...They, for a substantial salary, put up with exceptional rigors and yet find the rigors offset by the opportunity to almost immediately `do anything you want' and the knowledge that merit alone will move one ahead...
...Tina Rosenberg Warriors for Jerusalem: The Six Days that Changed the Middle East...
...Of her many dubious anecdotes, such as the time Lindbergh flew over her home on his way across the Atlantic, Mrs...
...We've suffered in all aspects of our organization lifethe execution of foreign policy, social policy, economic policy, corporate stewardship-from theories based on faulty premises about the way large numbers of human beings work, live, sleep, eat, breathe, and behave in organizations...
...It can be used to argue the case against sexual permissiveness, a mercenary army, excessive taxation-and, of course, the popular susceptibility to being placated by bread and circuses...
...Cunningham also wants to play both sides of the feminist fence...
...Baker quotes from their letters and other writings to make the book extremely readable, but he is better at dealing with the issues and events than with personalities...
...With this autobiographical volume covering the years 1930-40, the author firmly establishes himself as the patron saint of all of us who tend to repeat our anecdotes...
...Anchor Press, $14.95...
...By studying documents and interviewing participants, he presents hour-by-hour reconstructions of some of the key events leading up to the war...
...In most of her account she expresses the belief that there should be no difference in the treatment or behavior of women in the corporate world...
...Radical decentralization and a penchant for shifting people in unexpected fashions (Ribaud calls himself a "seeker of change") are a large part of it...
...the humiliation of the Arabs...
...and, not least, the absorption of the West Bank and Gaza into the Land of Israel...
...Auletta observes that it has not followed the fads of MBA technique and lawyer-infested staffs...
...Among them are the Soviet Union, Mexico, the Philippines, South Africa, Italy, El Salvador, Libya, and Israel...
...The most dependable metaphor in small-town stump oratory is that of the once-great Roman Empire...
...Ribaud is a fanatic, a perfectionist, a grudge-holder, a patient attender to personnel issues, a technologist, a consummate manager...
...Maverick Books, $6.95...
...Its principal business is providing geological analyses to oilwell drillers...
...Patrick Brantlinger...
...Which of the saints ever had gone to La Costa to recover from her martyrdom...
...The Marxist dissident historian hands down another indictment of the Stalinist era in biographies of the men the book's jacket condemns as "six who carried out the bloody policies": Voroshilov, Mikoyan, Suslov, Molotov, Kaganovich, and Malenkov...
...David Ignatius Taking Sides: America's Secret Relations with a Militant Israel...
...It established facts that have defined the region's conflicts ever since: the military prowess of the Israelis...
...195.00 ISBN 0-88410-979-8 Book 2: The Federal Committees June 1984 900 pp...
...Simon & Schuster, $17.95...
...Stephen Green...
...His account of the triumphant Israeli capture of the Old City of Jerusalem is subtle and moving, giving the reader a sense of the emotional importance for Israelis and Jews everywhere of the recovery of their ancient capital...
...Mark Kirschmier Weakness and Deceit: U.S...
...Bonner is astute enough to recognize that these deceptions (and countless others) are not the fumblings of a panicked administration but the logical result of its open-ended commitment to an unsavory regime...
...Joseph Nocera The Art of Corporate Success: The Story of Schlumberger...
...As Medvedev states, "They all traveled the road along which revolutionary tenacity degenerates into callousness, even sadism, political flexibility into pragmatism, and enthusiasm into demagoguery" -Mark Laughlin Wired: the Short Life and Fast Times of John Belushi...
...I assumed other women executives would automatically support each other," she writes...
...Among my other "favorite excellent companies," IBM and Proctor & Gamble in particular suffer from and benefit from the same paradox...
...He also indulges in many professor-of-English sentences that make the book tough going: "How far short television now falls of its potential for enlightenment can be seen in the large number of pessimistic, deterministic theories spawned, or in other words in its present obvious affinity for negative classicism...
...But the central theme through the years has been that the vulgar culture of the masses can undo the foundations of a vigorous society...
...Green describes U.S: Israel relations with no apparent sense of what motivates either side, and he writes badly-so abominably in places that the declassified government cables he quotes are more readable than his prose...
...The right reason to be concerned about television is that it grows more stupid even as upscale magazines enjoy larger circulation than ever before...
...Which of the saints, I wondered, had ever lived through a mass-media event...
...But it is clear that Jimmy Carter was right in at least withholding military and economic aid from such countries...
...Yet what bloody dividends his efforts ultimately paid...
...She quite blithely says she had no qualms about dismissing the only woman and the only black in her department when staff was being reduced: "It was ironic, but I felt less defensive about this than a man might have because these were truly the people who were least essential...
...Early in this act of self-hagiography Cunningham reveals that whenever she's uncomfortable her neck gets red and blotchy...
...Brilliant, urbane, and aloof, Jinnah left the Inns of Court for a career as India's highest-paid barrister...
...The elitist corps of field engineers (and Schlumberger unflinchingly encourages the feeling of elitism) feels total responsibility for what they do, as interviews repeatedly indicate...
...But he does argue usefully and persuasively that studying Rome will teach us about Rome, not necessarily about the modern United States...
...I wish Auletta had spent a bit more time with the people way down the line, in the field...
...Their differences were both personal and political...
...The current version of this warning, Brantlinger says, concerns television in particular and the mass media in general...
...And after reading Mary Cunningham's account of her life at Bendix, which of the saints, I wondered, had turned to Gail Sheehy for confession and absolution...
...Roy Medvedev...
...Carter's White House years is wooden and boring, but the story of her early life is told with candor and humanity and is absolutely fascinating...
...He demolishes the notion that the country's notorious death squads operate independently of the armed forces...
...World War II was a personal tragedy for Mrs...
...As the Indian Congress fell more heavily under the Mahatma's sway, Jinnah began to share his fellow Muslims' fears about their place in a future united, but Hindu-dominated, India...
...Louis Brandeis, an early liberal who sided with the workers against the trusts, banks, and large corporations that dominated American business at the beginning of this century, and his friend and protege, Felix Frankfurter, were involved in most of the major issues of their time, both on and off the Court-the tide of European immigrants, the beginning of the labor movement, Zionism and the birth of Israel, and, later, the civil rights movement...
...My problems with Auletta's book are, I think, minor...
...16.95 cloth ISBN 0-88730-013-8 LC 84-9338 AMERICA'S UNELECTED GOVERNMENT Appointing the Presidents Team John W. Macy, Bruce Adams, and J. Jackson Walter C. Calvin MacKenzie, Senior Consultant A National Academy of Public Administration Book This important book the result of an extensive study by the National Institute for Public Affairs, takes a hard look at the way key governmental positions are filled in the chaotic days after presidential elections...
...As an informing idea for a book, that has some potential, but Woodward doesn't pull it off...
...He quotes the critic, Raymond Williams: "The overwhelming absorption of tens of millions of mid-20th-century Americans in football games and struggles against cattle rustlers was a political achievement-along with welfare legislation, it seemed the American equivalent of the `Roman Bread and Circuses...
...But Taking Sides fails in precisely the dimension where Warriors for Jerusalem succeeds: in its narrative of the details and texture of events in Jerusalem and Washington...
...Israel today is a shaken nation, badly traumatized by the war in Lebanon and its own internal problems...
...One is how she and her staff reorganized a department at Bendix in a few days based on a one-page memo...
...Marcel Schlumberger's most significant concern, as he debated to whom to turn the company over, was that it would "lose its sense of intimacy...
...This fascinating history should be read by anyone interested in contemporary calls for the peacetime draft...
...The authors argue that western cattlemen are not the praiseworthy sentinels of individualism and frontier idealism that we have been led to believe...
...My own impression, after three years of covering the Middle East, is that the 1982 picture of Israel as a reckless Sparta will prove transitory...
...Knopf, $15.95...
...His book has what so many other accounts of recent Mideast history lack: a feel for the texture of events and the personalities that shaped them...
...Emily Yoffe First Lady from Plains...
...Brantlinger, himself a critic, is more interested in ideas about mass culture and declining civilizations than he is in those topics themselves, so he does not offer his assessment of the current state of cultural, political, and fiscal decadence...
...One of the strengths of Neff s narrative is that in most of the book he doesn't display gross bias toward either Israel or the Arabs...
...Of late, only Tracy Kidder's Soul of a New Machine ranks in the same league...
...Stanley Wolpert...
...So why is he writing a gossipy book about the pharmacological excesses of a movie star...
...Neff undercuts the balanced tone of much of the book, however, with a preachy prologue and an epilogue that summarize what he sees as the political lessons of the 1967 war...
...At one time Agee was considering an administration post because, his wife writes, he "had hopes of some day implementing his economic theories on a wider scale...
...There is enough folly, and blame, to go around...
...but 150 years ago, no one expected that most Americans (let alone most blacks) would be literate, or would even have attended school...
...His reporting does suggest that the U.S...
...Certainly the Ribaud story puts to bed the notion of the onedimensional businessman...
...Ronald Reagan...
...The rise of television, for example, may be one important feature of post-war America, but so is the dramatic expansion of opportunities for non-aristocrats to attend college...
...Neff's book succeeds because it is, above all, a compilation of careful reporting...
...Linden Press, $15.95...
...In general such theory has been written by academics/ consultants (myself included) who have neither operating experience nor a superb reporter's eye for human detail...
...For the foreseeable future, they probably will fight only "wars of no choice," imposed by their neighbors...
...But considering his disastrous attempt to take over Martin Marietta, which ended up with Bendix ceasing to exist as a separate corporate entity, God clearly intended to spare us that fate...
...No one who reads Patrick Brantlinger's book can ever again listen to such a speech without a blush, for his main purpose is to show how enduringly adaptable and inappropriate such "negative classicism" has been...
...As a bonus, there is absorbing new material on the author's years in France, Spain, India, and Afghanistan...
...Neff argues that Johnson's decision was influenced largely by American politics and his desire to increase Jewish support for his embattled presidency...
...Harper & Row, $25...
...She does have a point when she expresses astonishment at the national obsession that erupted around whether she was having an affair with Agee, her one-time "mentor" and former Bendix chairman (and current husband and business partner...
...The text is full of comments such as, "If I may say so, at least to you, I sometimes think there's something wrong with white people," and "You really should be talking to Joseph, my masseur" This isn't really a memoir of a life, but a series of descriptions of the clothes she wore while meeting famous people...
...Policy and El Salvador...
...Though hardly a religious devotee, Jinnah traded in his western suits for a black Punjabi coat and led India's 90 million Muslims to their new nation, a feat that required tremendous determination and physical courage...
...September 1984 ca 380 pp...
...William L. Shirer...
...But perhaps she unwittingly reveals the answer in her own book...
...They are not writing to persuade-they are writing for the believers...
...Donald Neff, a former Time correspondent, has written a skillful history of the events surrounding the 1967 war...
...His rapid rise in Indian politics, however, was eclipsed by the ascension of Mahatma Gandhi...
...Another is his summary of visits by the Soviet ambassadors in Cairo and Tel Aviv to President Nasser and Prime Minister Levi Eshkol, in which the Russians fed each side sharply conflicting intelligence reports...
...Bonner's detailed reporting demonstrates that whatever its initial intentions, the coup was taken over by rightwing extremists in the military officer corps...
...Denzel and Nancy Ferguson...
...But when she was forced to resign because speculation about her sex life (or lack of it, as she maintains) had become a full-time occupation at Bendix, she expresses surprise at her lack of female friends...
...1983 144 pp...
...Diana Vreeland...
...But in the end it was Jinnah's passionate devotion to a separate Muslim state that made the partition of the subcontinent inevitable...
...Leonard Baker...
...Cunningham is perplexed at how two years of neck rashes fit into God's plan for her...
...Her courage in supporting his struggle against the crooked politics and racial hatred of rural Georgia is especially touching because it is clear how afraid she was of the consequences and how hard she had to fight to overcome those fears...
...In that climate, writers such as Neff and Green wanted to explain to readers how this unruly Israel came to be...
...Univ of Illinois Press, $19.95...
...A recent New York Times Book Review article pointed out that corporate life is equally ignored by fiction writers...
...Israeli analysts on the right and left agree that it will be a decade, perhaps a generation, before Israelis are again willing to fight what they call a "war of choice...
...George Plimpton, Christopher Hemphill, eds...
...For me, this and my other caveats are just small nits...
...James Fallows Abortion and the Conscience of the Nation...
...Mohammed Ali Jinnah's belief in cooperation between India's two major religions had him dubbed the "Ambassador of Hindu-Muslim Unity...
...Gandhi's roots were sunk into peasant soil...
...Although there have been several acquisitions, the technological logic and coherence of the acquisitions are straightforward...
...The reaction will be deserved in the case of the essays by C. Everett Koop, the surgeon general, and Malcolm Muggeridge, the British journalist...
...most everyone else won't read it and will condemn it...
...My Schlumberger soundings highlight a paradox that Auletta describes, but doesn't bring to life as fully as he might have: the balance between an extraordinarily spirited and decentralized place where you can make your own thing happen, and, at times, a frightening "people eater" sidethe pressure to perform is nothing short of brutal-that goes with it...
...Bob Woodward...
...A corporate staff of just 197 runs a 75,000-person business...
...might promote a political settlement in which the democratic civilians among the opposition would not be shunted aside by the MarxistLeninist guerrillas...
...The book conveys the tension of Israeli cabinet meetings, the exultation of American supporters of Israel in the triumphs of the Jewish state, the muddle of State Department Mideast policy, and the sad selfdelusion of the Arabs in a way that few published accounts of the 1967 war and its aftermath have done...
...The organization is lean and mean...
...When she's not comparing herself to Joan of Arc or Mother Teresa, Cunningham manages to drop a few brief insights into big business...
...The hawkish air force general, Ezer Weizman, tore his general's insignia from his shoulder in his rage at Eshkol's indecision...
...It is also distinctly different from the social and political conditions of the Roman Empire, which is why reflexive talk about "Bread and Circuses" misdates the problems we have...
...One example is the visit by Israeli Foreign Minister Abba Eban to Washington in May 1967, which coincided with an Israeli effort to force American support through what Neff suggests were fabricated Israeli intelligence reports warning of an imminent Egyptian attack...
...But in the same breath the company argues that service is where it's really at...
...Yet he tells the story well enough that he gets away with the repetitions...
...Baker's detailed presentation of the lives and times of these two Supreme Court justices offers a wealth of information not only about the men themselves but also about the conditions that inspired the creation of some of the most controversial institutions of our day-Social Security, the Federal Reserve Board, and government regulation of business in general...
...The sad history of decline, from Republic to Empire to ruins, seems so apt an admonition to the young American Republic...
...Jinnah embodied India's westernized elite...
...They, too, reflect the paradox: "They talk in the same breath of incredibly hard work and fun...
...Moreover, Ribaud and Schlumberger stick to the things they understand...
...This account by The New York Times's former Salvador correspondent effectively punctures the unreality that pervades American discussions of El Salvador...
...Thomas J. Peters Brandeis and Frankfurter: A Dual Biography...
...Raymond Bonner...
...It's no wonder that our management theories have served us so poorly...
...One thing about this collection of three essays is certain: right-to-lifers will read it and praise it...
...I hope the talents and skills of more Ken Aulettas will be brought to bear...
...But the movement fizzled shortly after World War I; veterans hardened by the horror of trench warfare showed no enthusiasm for the notion, nor did workers bred to harsh factory discipline or members of the upper classes caught up in the roaring twenties...
...She makes real the hopes and fears of her growing up years and of the life she shared with Jimmy in the Navy and in Plains...
...Putnam, $15.95...
...This subtle social history recounts a short-lived effort to institute universal military training in early 20th-century America...
...but a lie to make life more interesting-well that's entirely different" -Emily Yoffe Sacred Cows at the Public Trough...
...Otherwise, though, he doesn't attempt to play policymaker...
...The Brethren showed that Woodward was ready to move from scandals to more important work-stories about the systemic failures of government...
...There is no opportunity now because the whole thing is being defined in terms of shooting and guns...
...Woodward has never been exactly a prose stylist, but he's one of the best (and most celebrated) investigators of his time...
...The specific indictments have ranged from the narcotic effects of religion to the potential for mass hysteria...
...The material about Mrs...
...For example, the Reagan administration has convinced many members of Congress and the press that the October 1979 coup brought to power a group of centrists who have been embattled by "extremists right and left" ever since...
...195.00 ISBN 0-88410-980-1...
...Donald Neff...
...Jinnah spent the last years of his life fighting British and Hindu adversaries, would-be assassins, and the cancer that was racing to consume his lungs...
...It sends out crews of exceptionally well-trained, young, aggressive field engineers to sell the complete service and is the only company in the industry that insists upon this complete-package approach...
...he is a socialist, an astonishingly generous supporter of the arts, a frenetic traveler who finds time to take at least two month-long vacations every year...
...William Morrow, $14.95...
...Auletta describes the amazing Schlumberger Corporation, a $6 billion, 75,000-person organization that ranks at the very top of the 1,000 biggest corporations in the world...
...And that Ronald Reagan is terribly wrong in tolerating everything done in the name of anticommunism...
...Amnesty International Publications, $5.95...
...Edmund Gibbon did not intend his Decline and Fall to be a disguised sermon about 18th-century Britain...
...Rosalynn Carter...
...yet Neff is no less moving in describing the trauma of Palestinian refugees displaced by the war...
...With a small staff and Ribaud's obsessive attention to personnel issues, corporate politics play a remarkably small role in the scheme of things...
...Instead they are responsible for billions of tons of topsoil needlessly lost, millions of fish and waterfowl destroyed through cattlecaused pollution, and a publicfinanced poisoning of valuable rangeland with herbicides...
...First and foremost, Auletta's book is a good, detailed, wellwritten commentary on the real world of business organization...
...Woodward has been quoted as saying he got interested in Belushi partly because they both grew up in Wheaton, Illinois but mostly because they both had to cope with the pressure that comes from the kind of instantaneous fame and fortune America can bestow...
...Thomas Nelson, $7.95...
...For 286 pages, Cunningham, neck aflame, attempts to even the score with the members of the business world and the media, who she feels destroyed her and William Agee's chances to build a great moral corporation...
...Times Books, $16.95...
...Because Al tries to be nonpolitical, it does not advocate any effective means to bring about a stop to the practice...
...THE REAGAN RECORD covers such key issues as supply side economics, deregulation, spending cutbacks, the new federalism, tax cuts, defense buildups, and antitrust and trade policies...
...Charles Peters To Make Democracy Safe for America: Patricians and Preparedness in the Progressive Era...
...Little Brown, $22.50...
...Advocates of the proposal-among them New England professors and military officers, as well as both Teddy and Franklin Roosevelt-believed that the egalitarian discipline of boot camp would restore patriotism, community spirit, and other smalltown American virtues threatened by corrupt politicians, lax educators, and masses of European immigrants...
...What we are left with is a waste of Woodward's talent...
...Inspired by his vision of a new nation and his glory as its leader, Jinnah failed to anticipate or help avert the savage Hindu-Muslim butchery that stained the freedom celebration...
...Mainly I'm delighted that a writer of Auletta's stature and skill has turned his attention to business...
...Though he and Carl Bernstein stumbled after their Watergate triumph with The Final Days, Woodward rallied with The Brethren, the behind-the-scenes account of life at the Supreme Court that he wrote with Scott Armstrong...
...Kurt Eichenwald THE REAGAN RECORD John L Palmer and Isabel V. Sawhill, Editors This nonpartisan study from Washington's Urban Institute assesses the impact of Reagan's policies on critical domestic issues...
...Similarly, The New York Times and The Wall Street Journal are thriving with intelligent national editions, even as many local papers are diving into the gutter...
...Gandhi's was in immoderate civil disobedience...
...ought to at least explore the opposition's offer of unconditional negotiations...
...What is unfortunate is that the sticky issue of how men and women sort out their professional and personal relationships when women move beyond support staff in the corporate hierarchy found its objective correlative in Cunningham and Agee-two of the most selfrighteous and oblivious individuals ever to agree to be profiled in People magazine...
...It was the sort of thing an outside consultant would charge $50,000 to do, take six months to complete, and convey his recommendations in a six-volume report...
...Jinnah's faith was in moderate constitutional reform...
...D.I...
...Jason DeParle Bread and Circuses: Theories of Mass Culture and Social Decay...
...Out of the unrelenting battering that American business, from microchips to automobiles, has taken in recent years, has emerged the beginning of a fundamental reexamination of the art of managing...
...officials have known all along that the Salvadoran military was guilty of perpetrating and covering up what a secret 1983 report called "atrocious crimes...
...All Stalin's Men...
...Perhaps the most critical element is radical decentralization...
...Even before the history of Rome was available as an object lesson, the Greeks and Romans themselves concocted imagery of ancient decadence...
...Koop and Muggeridge are combative, with fast and loose references to Auschwitz and Nazi Germany...
...Modern schools need to pay more attention to teaching students to read and write...
...In short, he's a complex man...
...The weak prime minister, Eshkol, was attacked by nearly everyone in Israeli politics, from Moshe Dayan to Menachem Begin, for his reluctance to attack the Eqyptians...
...Members of the Schlumberger family suggest today that Ribaud's number one contribution has in fact been to fend off the encroachment of almost inevitable bureaucracy...
...Bonner quotes Ruben Zamora, a widely respected social democrat and leader of the civilian opposition, as saying, "Look, at least give us the opportunity-and the fact is that right now there is no opportunity at all-to try to work out a pluralistic society...
...The reader closes the book knowing a great deal about what Brandeis and Frankfurter did and little about why they did it...
...Under Stalin's special process of selection, anyone who was unable to commit a criminal act was not merely removed from power but physically eliminated...
...The five years he spent in Berlin during the latter half of this period Shirer covered earlier in his Berlin Diary, The Rise and the Fall of the Third Reich, and The Rise and Fall of Adolph Hitler...
...Kathy Shwiff D.V...
...Andrew Moravcsik Jinnah of Pakistan...
...The notion was later revived in a small way in FDR's Civilian Conservation Corps and became implemented on a national scale with the coming of World War II...
...America's overindulgent support for Israel created a monster, in the form of the Begin government...
...And yet the rich texture of that life is almost a nonsubject for literate analysis...
...Another is that the business of Bendix's Washington office, at least when run by the Reagans' friend Nancy Reynolds, was feeding members of Congress...
...Linden Press, $17.95...
...28.00 cloth ISBN 0-88730-000-6 $12.95 paper ISBN 0-88730-001-4 LC 84-11001 BEYOND THE SAFETY NET A Reappraisal of the Modem Welfare System Sar Levitan and Clifford M. Johnson This compelling study of our nation's welfare system shows how the system has evolved how the welfare system meets the challenge of unequal opportunity, how societal barriers stifle opportunity, and what can be done to spark a new spirit of opportunity in America Must reading for anyone who questions our government's policy on social welfare October 1984 ca 169 pp...
...Houghton Mifflin, $17.95...
...Mary Cunningham with Fran Schumer...
...Cornell Univ...
...the rise of the Palestine Liberation Organization as an independent force...
...Charles Peters Torture in the Eighties: An Amnesty International Report...
...Neff understates the tragedy of the Middle East by blaming one side for the torments of the past 17 years...
...The company has not strayed far afield in even minor senses: eschewing more conventional wisdom, the highly sought-after Ribaud refuses to sit on anyone else's board of directors...
...Schlumberger believes in technology and invests in it heavily...
...The author also provides a fascinating portrait of President Lyndon Johnson, harassed and isolated by the Vietnam war, making the fateful decision to embrace Israel and end the relatively evenhanded Mideast policy of previous American administrations...
...and Israel...
...Harold Shukman, trans...
...Quoting classified State Department cables, he shows how U.S...
...Michael Pearlman...
...Which of the saints had ever been the victim of a corporate power play...
...This is a new genre of memoir: a stream of consciousness with no pretense of being anything but a transcription of what went into the tape recorder...
...He argues that America's "blind support" of Israel, beginning in 1967, "encouraged the most recalcitrant and militant elements of the Jewish nation"--Begin and his successor, Yitzhak Shamir-and transformed Israel into a "dark vision" of its former self...
...This is a miserable match of writer and subject, and as a result Woodward's account of the life and death of John Belushi has to rank as the worst book he's ever done...
...The revolution is on...
...But Cunningham is not equipped to reveal any more about what that means except to say, "I'm not sure even the Blessed Mother would have gotten very far at Bendix...
...the open alliance of the U.S...
...LC 83-15540 $22.50 cloth ISBN 0-88410-964-X $8.95 paper ISBN 0-88410-965-8 THE 1981-1982 PAC DIRECTORIES David U. Greevy, Chadwick R. Gore, and Marvin I. Weinberger, Editors Book 1: The Federal Candidates June 1984 942 pp...
...Vreeland because she was unable to get a fitting at Chanel's salon in Paris for five years...
...I think of Hayes' and Abernathy's landmark Harvard Business Review article, "Managing Our Way to Economic Decline," as the cornerstone of what has become a revolutionary movement in management thinking, the latest contribution to which is Ken Auletta's fine analysis of Jean Ribaud and Schlumberger...
...but since then, Brantlinger says, almost everyone else who has talked about Nero or the gladiators has been trying to make a point about his own contemporary society...
...Unlike other companies in its field, Schlumberger only rents-does not sell-equipment in its oil-well logging (measuring) business, which accounts for 45 percent of the company's revenues and 70 percent of its profits...
...The idea of a moral corporation is an intriguing one...
...Using information from prisoners and local antitorture groups, medical evidence and official government statements, Amnesty International describes in horrifying detail the use of torture by governments from 1980 to 1983...
...The book offers a surprising picture of the chaos of the Israeli government on the eve of the war...
...Press, $16.95...
...Green argues the same polemical thesis as Neff...
...Press, $24.95...
...Vreeland gives the game away toward the end of the book: "A lie to get out of something, or take an advantage for oneself, that's one thing...
...Jefferson Morley The Nightmare Years...
...These may be signs of a population that is dividing itself into reading and non-reading blocs, which is different from the 18th-century pattern of a thin educated layer atop the unlettered mob...
...Oxford Univ...
...The 1967 Arab-Israeli war was the decisive event in the modern history of the Middle East...
...He offers few recommendations for how the U.S...
...Ken Auletta...
...But, surprisingly, Reagan presents a clear and thoughtprovoking position without stooping to demagoguery...
...Life in organizations-schools, hospitals, baseball teams, symphonies, oil field service companies, computer makers, and toilet paper vendorsoccupies most of us most of the time...
...Both books may suffer from having been written in the wake of the 1982 Lebanon war, when it seemed to many Americans that Israel had indeed become a kind of monster, or at least the rival of its Arab neighbors in belligerence and cruelty...
Vol. 16 • July 1984 • No. 6
