POLITICAL BOOK NOTES
POLITICAL BOOK NOTES A listing of public affairs books to be published in February. The American Way of Violence. Alphonso If Men Were Angels. Milton Mayer. Pinkney. Random House, $7.95,...
...Louis Wolfson...
...Temple, $8.50...
...Simon & Schuster, $6.95...
...The Rosa Luxemburg Contraceptives Cooperative: A Primer on Communist Civilization...
...Gideon Sjoberg, M. Donald Hancock...
...A study of the political behavior of a community in Illinois submerged in a metropolitan area but commanding primarily local loyalties, which the author feels illustrates how urbanized America can retain a human scale in social and political life...
...Essays dealing with the social problems of the modern industrial state with a cross-national perspective...
...Brown, Edward Hutchings, Jr., eds...
...Columbia, $12.50, $3.50...
...A study of the political behavior of a community in Illinois submerged in a metropolitan area but commanding primarily local loyalties, which the author feels illustrates how urbanized America can retain a human scale in social and political life...
...Wallace E. Fisher...
...Macmillan, $6.95...
...Aurora, $12...
...Truth and Untruth: Political Deceit in America...
...Temple, $8.50...
...Sex, Schools and Society...
...A political scientist examines the rapidly changing character of American society in the 1960s and how the change is reflected in the political thinking of three Connecticut communities: a troubled central city, one of its fast-growing suburbs, and a declining small town...
...Fisher focuses on the relationship between Christ and culture, faith and political action, belief and patriotism, piety and politics...
...The Politics of Belleville: A Profile of the Civil Community...
...Simon & Schuster, $6.95, $2.95...
...Pegasus, $6.95, $2.95...
...An argument by an old-school liberal and journalist against the prophecies of the New Left that the U.S...
...Are Our Descendants Doomed...
...Harper & Row, $15...
...Neal R. Peirce...
...The author traces his early years in the New Left movement and describes his break with radicalism when he realized how he had been deceived...
...Daniel J. Elazar...
...Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, $5.95...
...Abingdon, $2.95...
...Of a conference On the impact The Megastates of America: people, politics, Bayonets and Daisies: The Militia’s Role in Civil Disobedience...
...George H. Olmsted, Jr...
...Wallace E. Fisher...
...Leo Litwak, Herbert Wilner...
...Morrow, f11.95, f3.95...
...Given the increasing frequency of war throughout history, the author suggests that human evolution will not last much longer and outlines ways in which this catastrophe may come about and what must be done to avoid it...
...Investigates the people and pressures that interact to shape government policies, focusing on the major special interest groups, such as the ADA, National Republican Congressional Committee, and Commpn Cause, who spend time and money to influence who gets to Washington and what will happen after they arrive...
...Political Brokers: People, Organizations, Money, and Power...
...Arthur Campbell Turner...
...Eppstein believes that the Papacy and the Catholic Church will survive what he sees as an attempt to adulterate faith and authority with the current nostrums of a decadent Western civilization...
...Search and Destroy: The Chicago Incident, December 4, 1969...
...A political, governmental, geographical, industrial, ethnic, metropolitan history and overview of the 10 states which account for 55 per cent of the population, 62 per cent of the manufacturing, 60 per cent of the bank assets, 59 per cent of personal income, and 60 per cent of state and local government spending...
...is headed for ruin because of corruption and fraud in “the system...
...Author predicts a steady.growth of violence in the next decade in the United States and gives his analysis of what kinds of violence will develop, who it will be aimed at, and what the U.S...
...Nothing, and So Be It: A Personal Search for Meaning in War...
...of technological change upon the growth and concentration of human populations...
...Allen Katzman, ed...
...Judith G. Smith, ed...
...He sees a clash between church and state unless the churches begin to realistically examine their role in the life of the state...
...An account of the personalities and organizations which make up today’s New Left, by a former member...
...William Laite, Jr., fwd...
...Acropolis, $6.95...
...Oriana Fallaci...
...Leopold Tyrmand...
...The author’s experiences as a Georgia State representative who was convicted of perjury and sent to jail, serving five months before President Nixon overturned the Davis-Bacon Act under which Laite was convicted...
...Arlington House, $6.95...
...The White Use of Blacks in America...
...John Eppstein...
...Politics, Poker, and Piety...
...Investigates the people and pressures that interact to shape government policies, focusing on the major special interest groups, such as the ADA, National Republican Congressional Committee, and Commpn Cause, who spend time and money to influence who gets to Washington and what will happen after they arrive...
...The New Left Today: America’s Tro’an Horse...
...VikiRg, Foreign Policy 1945-1954...
...Columbia, $12.50, $3.50...
...Norton, $2.95...
...When War Comes...
...Arnold Beichman...
...Gabriel Kolko...
...Liveright/National Journal, $7 9.5, $3.45...
...The Politics of Belleville: A Profile of the Civil Community...
...College Days in Earthquake: Ordeal at San Francisco State...
...Politics in the Post-Welfare State: Responses to the New Individualism...
...Atheneum, $7.95...
...Doubleday, $7.95...
...Commission of Inquiry into the Black Panthers and Law Enforcement...
...Nine Lies About America...
...William M. Birenbaum...
...A third-term congressman from California, challenging Richard Nixon for the Republican presidential nomination, believes that a restoration of faith in our system of government is dependent on challenging what he feels is the basic immorality of the Nixon Administration in such areas as Indochina policy, handling of news, justice and civil rights . The Unique Partnership: Britain and the United States...
...Random House, Has the Catholic Church Gone Mad...
...Norton, $ 12.95...
...Contributors include Christopher Lasch, Dennis McQuail, Jon Alexander, Dusky Lee Smith, Kaj Bjork, Erik Anners...
...Harrison The Limits of Power: The World and U.S...
...John van der Zee...
...Morrow, $4.95...
...of The Washington Monthly Our Time: An Anthology of Interviews from the East Village Other...
...Abingdon, $2.95...
...Discussion of American-British relations during and since the Second World War and a consideration of the future...
...Robin Clarke...
...Dial, $8.95, $2.65...
...Contributors include Christopher Lasch, Dennis McQuail, Jon Alexander, Dusky Lee Smith, Kaj Bjork, Erik Anners...
...Report of the independent citizens’ commission headed by former U.S...
...Essays dealing with the social problems of the modern industrial state with a cross-national perspective...
...The United States vs...
...Gideon Sjoberg, M. Donald Hancock...
...See adapted excerpt in this issuq...
...Atheneum, $12.50...
...Judith G. Smith, ed...
...Politics, Poker, and Piety...
...POLITICAL BOOK NOTES A listing of public affairs books to be published in February...
...William Laite...
...Something for Everybody Is Not Enough: An Educator’s Search for His Education...
...Acropolis, $6.95, $5.95...
...Daniel J. Elazar...
...Attorney General Ramsey Clark and Roy Wilkins, executive director of the NAACP, on the circumstances of the deaths, police investigation and testimony, and evidence in the raid on the Black Panthers in Chicago in 1969...
...McGraw-Hill, $10...
...Dan Lacy...
...Ideolop in America: Change and Response in a ity, a Suburb, and a Small Town...
...Library Press, $7.95...
...Stewart Fraser, ed...
...Capitol dill, $6.95...
...Phillip Abbott Luce...
...Politics in the Post-Welfare State: Responses to the New Individualism...
...Martin Caidin...
...Motion Will Be Denied: A New Report on the Chica o Cons iracy Trial...
...Paul N. McCloskey, Jr...
...Liveright/National Journal, $7 9.5, $3.45...
...and Power in the Ten Great States...
...Random House, $7.95, $1.95...
...Everett Carl1 Ladd, Jr...
...The Science of War and Peace...
...Canyon: The Story of the Last Rustic Community in Metropolitan America...
...John Schultz...
...Fisher focuses on the relationship between Political Brokers: People, Organizations, Money, and Power...
...Joyce and $12.50...
...Army plans to do to control civil disturbances...
Vol. 3 • February 1972 • No. 12
